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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 900301" data-attributes="member: 38206">Garage fires, with Volts insideThe two previous fires with Chevy Volts involved were in Mooresville, North Carolina, just last week, and in Barkhamsted, Connecticut, last April. Both occurred in garages that happened to house Chevrolet Volts.In the Mooresville case, a Volt was charging in the garage at the time of the fire--leading local electric utility Duke Energy, in a surfeit of caution, to advise electric-car owners not to plug in their cars to charge until the cause of the blaze had been established.No conclusion has yet been drawn by local fire officials, but GM sources--none of whom would go on record--seem confident that the Volt will not be deemed to have been a cause of the blaze.As for the <a href="http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1058475_electric-car-fire-flaming-garage-shows-media-ignorance" target="_blank">Connecticut blaze</a>, the fire marshal&#039;s report concluded the Volt that was parked in the garage had nothing to do with the cause of the fire. It was sitting next to a <a href="http://www.greencarreports.com/make/suzuki,new" target="_blank">Suzuki</a> converted by the home&#039;s owner to a battery electric vehicle<a href="http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1068533_third-fire-consumes-a-chevy-volt-electric-car-perspective" target="_blank">Third Fire Consumes A Chevy Volt Electric Car: Perspective</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="texan, post: 900301, member: 38206"] [B]Garage fires, with Volts inside[/B] The two previous fires with Chevy Volts involved were in Mooresville, North Carolina, just last week, and in Barkhamsted, Connecticut, last April. Both occurred in garages that happened to house Chevrolet Volts. In the Mooresville case, a Volt was charging in the garage at the time of the fire--leading local electric utility Duke Energy, in a surfeit of caution, to advise electric-car owners not to plug in their cars to charge until the cause of the blaze had been established. No conclusion has yet been drawn by local fire officials, but GM sources--none of whom would go on record--seem confident that the Volt will not be deemed to have been a cause of the blaze. As for the [URL="http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1058475_electric-car-fire-flaming-garage-shows-media-ignorance"]Connecticut blaze[/URL], the fire marshal's report concluded the Volt that was parked in the garage had nothing to do with the cause of the fire. It was sitting next to a [URL="http://www.greencarreports.com/make/suzuki,new"]Suzuki[/URL] converted by the home's owner to a battery electric vehicle [URL="http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1068533_third-fire-consumes-a-chevy-volt-electric-car-perspective"]Third Fire Consumes A Chevy Volt Electric Car: Perspective[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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