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As the spontaneous combustion of new energy vehicles enters the stage of "frequent occurrence", its safety issues have been receiving much attention. August 11, according to netizens reported that there is another new energy vehicle spontaneous combustion situation, from the shooting video content can be seen from the scene a lot of smoke, and accompanied by multiple explosions.

From the specific shooting video content shows, a suspected white Xiaopeng G3 parked on the edge of the square, found that the vehicle around and at the bottom of the thick white smoke. At this time, firefighters have arrived at the scene to put out the fire, but due to the obvious explosion accompanying the burning process of the vehicle, the firefighters waited for several minutes before carrying out the complete rescue. From the fact that the door of the vehicle has been opened when it spontaneously ignites, it is speculated that no one has been injured. In addition, it is understood that the vehicle has not been charged when spontaneous combustion occurs.

After the accident, Xiaopeng Automobile also quickly investigated and recovered the incident. At about 11:30 a.m. on August 11,2020, a G3 smoke and fire accident occurred in Pazhou Science and Technology Building, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, according to the official response.

After preliminary investigation on site, the appearance of the vehicle is intact. After lifting and investigating in the shop, it was found that there were obvious serious collision scars at the bottom of the battery box, resulting in serious battery damage. It was preliminarily judged that it was the cause of the accident. The company will conduct further detailed investigation and analysis of the accident.

Xiaopeng Automobile, as a domestic head new force automobile enterprise, currently sells two models of Xiaopeng G3 and Xiaopeng P7, and the vehicle involved in this accident is Xiaopeng G3, which is first promoted by Xiaopeng Automobile, positioned as compact SUV. The price after subsidy is 146,800 yuan to 199,800 yuan. It is equipped with ternary lithium battery, which is also the battery type carried by the model with the most spontaneous combustion events of new energy vehicles at present.

By the first half of 2020, Xiaopeng Automobile has sold 4698 vehicles accumulatively, including 1123 vehicles sold in June, among which Xiaopeng G3 is its main sales model. Even if Xiaopeng sales performance is average, but Xiaopeng G3 spontaneous combustion event is not the first time.

At noon on December 19,2019, an open fire appeared at the tail of a Xiaopeng G3 near Huashan Town, Huadu District, Guangzhou City. Xiaopeng Automobile responded that the open fire phenomenon was not caused by spontaneous combustion of vehicles. After testing, it was found that the battery pack was intact and could still work normally. It was judged that the accident was caused by external fire source.

Although the official has clarified the non-quality problem for the spontaneous combustion of Xiaopeng G3, it is mainly caused by serious collision and scar of battery box. But for Xiaopeng car official recovery, there are also netizens think: "bump will catch fire?" Didn't you test it before it left the factory?"

Since the beginning of this year, there have been fire accidents in brand cars including GAC New Energy, Ideal, BYD, Euler, etc., and consumers 'concerns about the safety of new energy vehicles have not been eliminated. In this regard, it is also suggested that new energy vehicle owners drive new energy vehicles as little as possible to walk some sections with difficult passage rate, so as to avoid accidents caused by accidental puncture of battery box again. After all, battery packs of new energy vehicles are currently set at the bottom of vehicles.

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