2013 CHEVROLET VOLT — Complaint #1776806
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:PROPULSION SYSTEM filed November 3, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1776806 (ODI reference 11439207) concerns a 2013 CHEVROLET VOLT and was filed on November 3, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 27, 2021. The vehicle had 78,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Minnesota based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:propulsion system, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same CHEVROLET VOLT cohort independently describe similar electrical system:propulsion system failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2013 CHEVROLET VOLT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2013 Chevrolet Volt. The contact stated while driving at 65 MPH, a warning message appear a propulsion power reduction and the vehicle began to lose power and reduce in speed while the contact was driving. The contact was able to pulled the vehicle over to the side of the road waited a few minutes and restart the vehicle and continue to drive to their residence. The contact took the vehicle to a local dealer who diagnosed the failure as the propulsion battery would need to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was appromaxtley 78,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1776806 |
| ODI Number | 11439207 |
| Date Filed | November 3, 2021 |
| Failure Date | October 27, 2021 |
| VIN | 1G1RB6E48DU |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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