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Today, an ideal ONE in the streets of Changsha City, Hunan Province smoke fire situation, firefighters timely to the vehicle for fire fighting treatment. According to the on-site video, the fire occurred in the engine room about the engine (range extender) position, which eventually caused serious burning of the front engine room of the vehicle, but there was no obvious damage to the rear half. It is understood that this car has been put on the temporary license plate, that is to say, this car has not been on the license plate on fire, as for the specific cause of the fire is unknown, at present also do not know whether there are casualties.

Subsequently, the ideal car official micro bo response said: May 8,2020 at about 11:30, Hunan Changsha an ideal ONE occurred in the front cabin smoke situation, after on-site inspection, the vehicle battery system did not appear problems. At present, the vehicle has been moved to a safe area for testing, and follow-up investigation results will be released in time.

As for the cause of the fire in this incident, it remains to be officially investigated. At present, new car-making forces such as Tesla, Weima, Xiaopeng and NIO have spontaneous combustion all over the country. Among them, NIO also recalled 4803 ES8 vehicles last year due to spontaneous combustion hazards.

It is worth mentioning that the day before the ideal ONE appeared smoke fire, there was an ideal owner reflected in the WeChat group, saying that his ideal ONE suddenly encountered "brake failure" at high speed, and finally the brake generated by power recovery made the car stop.

According to the pictures provided by the owner, the cause of ideal ONE brake failure may be related to power stop, automatic parking stop, auxiliary driving unavailable, etc. Similar to assist systems, automatic parking, assisted driving, etc. are all "new configurations" for automobile development in recent years. There is no doubt that these configurations can indeed bring convenience to the owner, but at the same time they also bring a lot of safety hazards to the owner.

In this regard, the ideal car official said: "We understand that the user's vehicle failure has been resolved, and assist the user to do a good job of follow-up services." There are no safety issues with the braking system."

The ideal car is a member of the new force of car-making, and the ideal ONE is the first mass-production model of the ideal car, carrying Li Xiang's dream of building a car. It is understood that in October 2018, the ideal ONE was officially released, but the ideal car at that time still lacked the qualification to build a car. In December 2018, Ideal Automobile acquired Chongqing Lifan Automobile Co., Ltd. through Chongqing Xinfan Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd., and Curve obtained the qualification for vehicle building. In April 2019, the first model of the ideal car, Ideal ONE, was officially launched at a subsidized price of 328,000 yuan and was officially delivered to consumers in the fourth quarter of 2019.

The ideal ONE is an extended range hybrid car that can be recharged or burned. The new car is equipped with a 1.2T displacement three-cylinder range extender. The car is also equipped with a battery pack with a capacity of 37.2kWh and a comprehensive NEDC range of 800km. In terms of power, the car adopts front and rear dual motors, with a combined maximum output of 326 horsepower, a maximum torque of 530 N·m, and an acceleration of 0-100 km/h of about 6.5 seconds.

In December 2019, the ideal car was officially opened for delivery, but there were many minor system problems after delivery, such as emission system failure, parking system failure, body stability system failure, etc., but the risk-averse car official said it would be solved in the subsequent software upgrade and would not affect the driving and safety of the vehicle.

According to Ideal Car launch data, Ideal ONE has delivered a total of 6500 new vehicles since delivery in December 2019. More than 2600 new vehicles were delivered in April, up 80% from March. According to the data, the initial performance of the ideal car is slightly better than that of NIO Automobile, which boosts the confidence of building cars to some extent. However, as far as the ideal car is concerned, problems of great and small size have occurred more than once since the opening and delivery, and the official should pay attention to it. In addition, there are netizens in micro bo revealed that the ideal car customer service said 1/7000 spontaneous combustion probability is very low, really let people speechless. We will continue to pay attention to the specific reasons for this spontaneous combustion time.

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