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When the sales volume of the new energy market is gradually increasing, it also reflects the expanding demand of the new energy vehicle market. At the same time, with the increase in sales, the spontaneous combustion and fire of new energy vehicles have been paid more and more attention. Recently, Xiaopeng P7, a subsidiary of Xiaopeng Motor, caught fire for the first time, but it was not spontaneous combustion according to the results posted online.

According to a video uploaded by the Beijing News, a white Xiaopeng P7 was parked at the side of a road while a lot of smoke wafted from the top of the rear wheel of the car. Or for this reason, firefighters have been seen arriving at the scene in the video in the following minutes, and it can be seen from the large amount of liquid on the ground that firefighters have sprinkled the vehicle.

It is understood that at first, some white smoke floated out from the top of the rear wheel of Xiaopeng P7. A few minutes later, the vehicle caught fire. After the vehicle was extinguished, the rear of the vehicle was blackened and the front cover of the vehicle was opened.

In addition, eyewitnesses at the scene learned that at that time, the vehicle first appeared smoke, followed by fire and explosion. Fortunately, no one was injured in the accident. According to the owner, he did not know what caused the smoke and fire.

In response to this incident, Xiaopeng Automobile has confirmed that the cause of the fire is under investigation. At the same time, Xiaopeng car customer service mentioned that at that time, due to the abnormal noise in the trunk of the vehicle, the car owner only found smoke at the rear of the vehicle after parking, and now a professional team has been sent to conduct on-the-spot investigation.

However, for this incident, some netizens revealed that it was caused by the wrong behavior of the driver. According to a netizen in "Jingpenghui-Xiaopeng car friends", the driver pulled out the ESP fuse and started burning tires. Or the battery of Xiaopeng P7 is damaged due to the overload of the battery, which makes the vehicle smoke.

Although Xiaopeng car has been exposed before the vehicle encountered smoke, fire and other incidents. In August 2020, a white Xiaopeng G3 caught fire in Pazhou Science and Technology Building, Haizhu District, Guangzhou. After the preliminary investigation of the scene of Xiaopeng automobile staff, the appearance of the vehicle was intact. After lifting the investigation to the store, it was found that there were obvious serious bumping scars at the bottom of the battery box, resulting in serious damage to the battery, which was the cause of the accident. The Xiaopeng P7 as the second model after the listing of Xiaopeng car, there have been no related cases of smoke, fire and so on.

Data show that the Xiaopeng P7 went on sale in April 2020, with a subsidised price of 22.99-409900 yuan and a maximum range of 706km, equipped with ternary lithium batteries from the Ningde era.

In order to further explore the price of the new car, Xiaopeng P7 recently revealed that it will launch a version of lithium iron phosphate. The main difference between the new car and the current model is that it uses lithium iron phosphate batteries from the Ningde era.

No matter what kind of battery the new and old Xiaopeng P7 carries, the safety of the battery is undoubtedly one of the issues that consumers are most concerned about. We also hope that Xiaopeng car will find out the cause and respond to the outside world as soon as possible in response to this incident. We will also continue to pay attention to this.

According to Xiaopeng Automobile data, the brand delivered a total of 27041 vehicles in 2020, an increase of 112% over the same period last year. The cumulative proportion is still larger than that of Xiaopeng G3, of which the P7 delivered a total of 8527 vehicles in the whole year. However, judging from the latest January sales, the Xiaopeng P7 has successfully overtaken the Xiaopeng G3 to become the main selling model under the brand, resulting in Xiaopeng delivering a total of 6015 new cars in January, an increase of 470% over the same period last year.

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