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On the afternoon of Aug. 22, a netizen posted on WeChat that a Tesla in Guangzhou suffered heavy losses when his BMW was "buried with him" after a spontaneous combustion accident occurred in an underground garage. The site of the incident is located in Jiayu Junyue residence, an upscale community in the Pearl River New Town of Guangzhou.

It is worth noting that the content of the netizen's post said: Tesla's public relations personnel appeared "quickly" at the first time, but the whole process was cold and cold, and even made all kinds of actions that wanted to hide the scene. Specifically, these public relations personnel want to pull away the vehicle before the staff of the relevant departments come to the scene for identification. In addition, the car is covered with a flammable hood when the temperature inside the car is still very high. And it is understood that even if the car is seen in the surveillance is spontaneous combustion, Tesla side also "PUA" the owner, refused to admit that it is spontaneous combustion. Tesla's technicians did not show up from beginning to end.

For the statement that "public relations are trying to pull the vehicle away ahead of time," Tesla responded that it was because of the characteristics of the battery, and that it had been suggested, in cooperation with fire control, public security, property and other parties, that the vehicle be towed away to ensure safety first, and that the battery would be dismantled and identified by a third party under the coordination and witness of the competent authorities. "the cause of the accident will be made public as soon as possible after the investigation."

On this matter, some netizens said: the next time we park, we should see if there is Tesla nearby. Another netizen said: isn't this a normal thing?

It is worth noting that not long ago, a Tesla Model 3 owner posted on the Chinanews.com automobile quality complaint platform that his vehicle had a serious spontaneous combustion accident not long ago, which has not been effectively resolved. The owner said: "at about 11:25 on July 7 this year, after driving for more than 10 minutes, I stopped by the side of the road for about 3 minutes, and the vehicle turned on 23-degree cold air conditioning in p gear. When I was ready to leave, I found that I was out of gear, the system reported an error, at the same time, the vehicle made a strange noise, a lot of white smoke came out of the air conditioner outlet, and emitted a pungent smell of burning …... " At that time, I immediately opened the driver's seat window, but the first time the door did not open, after the second opening, I immediately got out of the car, and when I closed the door, I found that it could no longer be opened, and the smoke grew louder and louder. " In addition, the car owner also stressed: the car does not have any combustibles, there is no modification, are normal vehicle operation. "

The owner then said that the fire department had ruled out the possibility of spontaneous combustion caused by human causes. Under the supervision of the fire department, Tesla staff dismantled and collected evidence on the accident vehicle, but Tesla has so far failed to find the cause of the fire, nor has he provided vehicle data during the fire. Tesla said that he would pay compensation for the owner's loss at his discretion, but there was no effective solution to the vehicle spontaneous combustion accident. At present, the two sides have not yet reached an agreement, and the owner's Model 3 car is still sealed in the fire brigade.

In recent years, fire incidents of new energy vehicles have occurred frequently, and safety issues have also attracted the attention of consumers. Fire and spontaneous combustion accidents of many brands of new energy vehicles have become the focus of new energy vehicles, not only at home, but also abroad. General Motors has announced that it will expand the recall of Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles to include more than 73000 models of 2019 and 2020-2022 at an estimated cost of $1 billion, and will stop sales of the electric vehicle indefinitely because of the risk of fire in its high-voltage battery pack.

However, Tesla thinks his probability of catching fire is very low. According to data released by Tesla, there were nearly 190000 car fires in the United States in 2019, but only a small number of them involved electric vehicles; Tesla's car caught fire for every 205 million kilometers driven from 2012 to 2020. By contrast, one car caught fire for every 30 million kilometers traveled in the United States, according to the National Fire Protection Association and the U.S. Department of Transportation. According to this data, the fire probability of Tesla is less than 1/10 of that of ordinary fuel vehicles.

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