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On Aug. 2, a video of an ideal ONE burning into a shell on the highway caused a heated discussion on the Internet. According to several media reports, the accident occurred 864km from Leshan to Ya'an in the Leshan-Ya'an section of Sichuan G93 Chengdu-Chongqing Ring Road Expressway. The fire vehicle is the ideal ONE of the new energy add-on car. Judging from the online video footage, the fire at the scene was large and smoke was emitting. After the fire was extinguished by firefighters, the vehicle was seriously destroyed and only the frame was left. The position of the front augmenter of the vehicle was seriously damaged, and the rear door of the vehicle had fallen off from the main body of the car body after the fire. A passenger was injured in the accident and was taken to hospital. As for the cause of the vehicle fire, the highway traffic police department said at that time that it was under further investigation and had not yet reached a clear conclusion.

In response to the above incident, ideal Automobile customer Service confirmed the matter and said: "the company attaches great importance to this and immediately set up an investigation team to investigate whether the cause of the fire was caused by the individual owner or the deficiency in the model. The results will be released after the investigation is clear." Then, according to the official response of ideal Automobile, the accident occurred at 13:17 on August 1, when an ideal ONE caught fire on the Chengdu-Chongqing Expressway in Sichuan Province. The company has immediately sent technical and engineering personnel to the site of the accident to confirm the status of users and vehicles. At present, the local fire department has been involved. The specific cause of the accident needs to be further investigated and analyzed by the fire department. At the time of the accident, the people on board got off in time, and the injured were being treated in hospital and were not life-threatening. Ideal car is maintaining close communication with users to assist users in dealing with the aftermath.

In addition, according to the upstream news report, on the afternoon of August 2, the staff related to ideal Automobile responded to the media that the cause of the accident was still under investigation, and if consumers had safety concerns, they could go to the nearest official network for a comprehensive inspection.

Up to now, the accident is under further investigation, there is no clear conclusion on the cause of the fire, and the cause of the fire has yet to be officially announced.

The ideal ONE is the first production car under the New Power car company ideal Motors. The ideal ONE was launched in October 2018 and positioned as a medium and large SUV. The model on sale went on sale in May 2021 and is currently priced at 349800 yuan. What is different from the pure electricity of the new power brands Xiaopeng Automobile and Ulay Automobile is that the ideal car takes the "extended range route". As the only product of the ideal car, the ideal ONE is driven by an added program, which can be fueled and can be powered by electricity. Data show that the ideal ONE delivered a total of 70825 vehicles from January to July this year, of which 10422 were delivered in July.

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