My username relevant, yes :(

If it's just light rust I doubt it will fail. They also have other annoying stuff they can fail you for...example: a car doesn't have to have fog lights at all whatsoever, but if your car DOES have them, they all have to work, even if you never use them...even though cars aren't even required to have them.

Whatever source you tried to link to is paywalled.

I am aware of that. I was more surprised by them being in an EV (you know without the presence of a battery fire or something)

TIL, I was pretty confused at first when I saw them talking about exhaust gas. Had no idea seatbelt pretensioners worked like this.

>shouldnt be a pain in the ass and your pocket book to maintain

As a two time Chevy owner, that's a Chevy thing....that's what's frustrating. I'd love a Chevy Bolt but don't want to deal with Chevy dealerships and Chevy issues. Sadly, all of the competing cars seem to be a lot more expensive.

Yep, that's what I recommend, also a dash cam so you have some proof if someone else runs a red light or stop sign so you're not in a situation of 'your word against theirs' on what happened, what color the light was, etc.