Written by Chevy announced today an 8 year warranty on the Lithium-ion battery in the volt. It is 8 years or 100,000 miles. This is in contract to the warranty on their regular car engines, which is 5 years or 100,000 miles.
We think this is good news for Volt buyers. Toyota also gives an 8 year warranty, but in California and certain other states you get a 10 year/150,000 warranty on their batteries in the Prius. We are eager to see what they do for a warranty once they release vehicles with larger batteries in a plugin vehicle.
The Chevy Volt is expected to cost around $35,000, and possibly less with incentives.
GM expects the batteries to last longer than 8 years. It will be very interesting to see how long they last, and hopefully all such batteries will be recycled, since they are large and have toxic components.
