2017 CHEVROLET VOLT — Complaint #2067413
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:PROPULSION SYSTEM:TRACTION BATTERY:MANAGEMENT SYSTEM/ENERGY CONTROL MODULE (BMS/BECM) filed February 20, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2067413 (ODI reference 11643871) concerns a 2017 CHEVROLET VOLT and was filed on February 20, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 20, 2023. The vehicle had 110,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to South Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:propulsion system:traction battery:management system/energy control module (bms/becm), 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:traction battery:management system/energy control module (bms/becm) 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 2017 CHEVROLET VOLT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2017 Chevrolet Volt. The contact stated while driving at approximately 35 MPH, the âPropulsion Power Reducedâ message in the driver information center was illuminated. The contact stated that the vehicle was losing motive power. The contact stated that the failure was intermittent but had occurred at various speeds, and the vehicle lost motive power. The contact had taken the vehicle to a local dealer, where it was diagnosed and determined that the Battery Energy Control Module (BECM) needed to be replaced and reprogrammed. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact stated that the vehicle was no longer operable. The manufacturer was informed of the failure. The contact researched and related the failure to a Customer Satisfaction Program for the BECM; however, the contact was advised by the manufacturer and the dealer that the vehicle was not covered under the CSP. The failure mileage was approximately 110,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2067413 |
| ODI Number | 11643871 |
| Date Filed | February 20, 2025 |
| Failure Date | June 20, 2023 |
| VIN | 1G1RD6S55HU |
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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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