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Recently, an ideal ONE owner said that his car suddenly encountered a "brake failure" on the highway and could only rely on the braking effect of kinetic energy recovery to slide the car to the service area. Ideal is a new power brand of self-made car, as the delivery of the new car is less than half a year, the problem has attracted the attention of the majority of netizens after it has been exposed. On May 12th, ideal Automobile released an explanation about the disappearance of the ideal ONE electronic brake assist.

Officials said that after technical testing of the vehicle, the fault of the car was the disappearance of electronic power, due to an occasional communication failure of an electronic component in the mechanical and electrical servo mechanism, resulting in the failure of the brake power system.

Ideally, it still retains the mechanical braking function after the electronic brake assist disappears, and the driver can press the brake pedal hard to stop the vehicle safely. At the same time, officials said that the mechanical and electrical servo mechanism used by the ideal ONE is a mature component used by mainstream automobile companies, and this failure is a rare case of the supplier and there is no batch risk.

It is understood that the ideal ONE uses the i-Booster II braking system supplied by Bosch, which can realize the automatic control of speed and efficient recovery of braking energy in the process of auxiliary driving.

By the end of April, ideal ONE had delivered a total of 6500 units. The quantity of the car in the market is small, but many users and netizens are worried about the frequent quality problems. Not long ago, an ideal ONE in Changsha, Hunan Province spontaneously ignited.

At noon on May 8, an ideal ONE in Changsha, Hunan Province, caught fire. From a number of videos posted online, the car caught fire in the front engine cabin, causing serious damage to the vehicle.

It is said that the owner of the car only picked up the car for seven days, and the owner mentioned that he was a retired firefighter. At that time, he was able to make an emergency response to the spontaneous combustion of the vehicle, so that there were no casualties.

According to the official preliminary report of ideal car, there is nothing wrong with the car's battery system, and the cause of the accident is currently being investigated.

The ideal ONE is a plug-in hybrid vehicle with a 1.2T three-cylinder engine provided by Dongan Power. The main function of the engine is to generate electricity, which is directly used to drive the vehicle or stored in the battery pack.

So far, the ideal official has not given the results of the investigation into the spontaneous combustion incident that netizens are concerned about.

Ideal car is a new energy car company founded by Li Xiang in July 2015. the company was previously named "car and Home" and changed its name to ideal car in March 2019. Ideal Automobile obtains the production qualification through the acquisition of Lifan passenger cars, and the self-built factory is located in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. In August 2019, ideal Motor announced the completion of $530 million in round C financing, with nearly $300m invested by Wang Xing, founder of Meituan, and nearly $100m invested by Li Xiang, which valued the ideal car at about $2.93 billion. So far, the cumulative financing amount of ideal car has reached 1.575 billion US dollars.

There is news that ideal Automobile is preparing to build an offshore structure for overseas listing, and Li Xiang himself has discussed this point. It is said that the main reason for going to the IPO in the United States may be that the "money" needed to build a car is far beyond the imagination of an ideal car.

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