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Electric vehicles of various brands have caught fire and spontaneous combustion in recent years, which has aroused the attention of all walks of life, further aggravating consumers 'concerns about the safety of electric vehicle batteries, especially the Shanghai Tesla fire accident. Under some circumstances, the battery pack may explode instantaneously, with considerable power and fire.

BYD's electric car also caught fire on April 24 after Tesla and NIO caught fire one after another.

On the morning of 24 th, a BYD e5 electric car caught fire online. In the video, the white BYD caught fire, and the fire was mainly concentrated at the rear of the vehicle, next to a black Audi parked next to it. The video sound shows that the fire extinguisher is too small to put out the fire in time.

Firefighters arrived at the scene and put out the fire. It is expected that the rear of BYD vehicle will be burned, while the front half of the vehicle will not be damaged by the fire.

Some netizens voice pointed out that this series of spontaneous combustion accidents, has involved public safety, brand parties should open investigation information, answer why spontaneous combustion? How to avoid it?

When the BYD fire incident continued to ferment on the Internet. BYD Auto officials issued a statement on the incident.

BYD said a BYD e5 fire broke out in Wuhan on April 24, causing no casualties. After learning of the incident, BYD arranged personnel to rush to the scene as soon as possible. After preliminary inspection, the fire point is located in the trunk of the vehicle, and the power battery at the chassis position of the vehicle is intact.

At the same time, BYD also put on a fire BYD e5 vehicle chassis map. Although the battery pack position is not obviously damaged, but the specific cause of the fire still needs to be clear, BYD said it will cooperate with relevant departments to investigate.

Earlier, Tesla Model S and NIO ES8 two fires burned down accidents, there is still no specific cause of fire announced.

On the 24th, the burned Tesla car was sent to Tesla Shanghai Experience Center for inspection, and experts from several departments assisted in the inspection. Tao Wei, an expert in automobile defect investigation and identification recall of AQSIQ, revealed that the preliminary judgment was a battery short circuit problem.

Subsequently, Tesla's official Weibo posted the latest response saying that at present, the incident is under investigation under the leadership of the authority department, and no preliminary judgment or conclusion has been formed. We will actively cooperate with the investigation, publish the investigation results in a timely manner, and do not spread rumors.

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