2016 CHEVROLET VOLT — Complaint #1957356
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:PROPULSION SYSTEM:TRACTION BATTERY filed January 11, 2024
NHTSA complaint #1957356 (ODI reference 11564925) concerns a 2016 CHEVROLET VOLT and was filed on January 11, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 1, 2023. The vehicle had 91,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:propulsion system:traction battery, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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:traction battery 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 2016 CHEVROLET VOLT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2016 Chevrolet Volt. The contact stated that while at a stop light, the vehicle suddenly shut off and would not restart. The vehicle was towed to the local dealer who diagnosed that the high voltage battery was faulty and needed to be replaced. An engineer was sent by the manufacturer to examine the vehicle and confirmed that the high voltage battery was faulty. The contact was later informed that the manufacturer had authorized the high voltage battery replacement. The failure mileage was 91,000. The VIN was not available.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1957356 |
| ODI Number | 11564925 |
| Date Filed | January 11, 2024 |
| Failure Date | December 1, 2023 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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