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According to the General Administration of Market Supervision on the 27th, a total of 4803 Lulai ES8 electric vehicles were recalled with power battery packs produced from April 2, 2018 to October 19, 2018. As the State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration carried out on-site investigation of burning vehicles, affected by the investigation, producers decided to take recall measures to eliminate safety risks.

Recently, safety accidents of ES8 power batteries have occurred in Shanghai and other places, according to a statement from Lulai. According to the investigation, it is found that the battery pack used in the accident vehicle is equipped with a module with specification model NEVP50, and the voltage sampling wire harness in the module may be squeezed by the cover plate of the module due to improper direction. In extreme cases, the insulating material on the surface of the extruded voltage sample harness may be worn, resulting in short circuit and safety risks. Other ES8 with battery safety accidents also use the same type of power battery pack.

Ningde Times also issued a statement on the incident after Xilai issued an announcement recalling some of its ES8 models. Ningde Times said it will attach great importance to this matter and will actively cooperate with the recall of Lulai Automobile to safeguard the rights and interests of consumers.

Regarding the recall, Li Bin, founder and CEO of Xilai, quickly wrote on APP: "it is precisely because we do not dare to betray everyone's trust that we do not hesitate to decide whether to recall or not." Using a better battery pack to eliminate security risks is the most expensive way, but it is indeed the most reassuring way. "

Li Bin said that the module led to battery safety accidents and recalls. Ulai will work with partners in the supply chain to speed up the production of new battery packs, and the service system and power exchange system will also respond very quickly to implement battery replacement as quickly as possible. allay everyone's concerns.

However, not long after the news was released today, there was another case of spontaneous combustion of ES8 in NIO. In the video, a white ES8 is clearly seen emitting white smoke from the basement, while people around them keep repeating: "Yulai is on fire, Yulai is on fire."

According to the source, the location of the smoking ES8 is suspected to be an underground garage in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province. At present, the person in charge of NIO has been contacted and no reply has been made before the press release.

For the occurrence of another spontaneous combustion, many netizens said that the "quality" is very stable.

Xilai has always attracted a lot of attention, and the recent focus has been on the quality of its vehicles. According to public reports, there have been four spontaneous combustion accidents in the past two months and today.

A Lulai ES8 burns in the parking lot of Hanxi Building Materials Market in Wuhan City on June 14. In the evening, NIO issued a statement through its official Weibo that the open fire had been put out and there were no casualties or other property losses. The cause of the fire of the vehicle is unknown. Xilai has launched an investigation, which will be announced as soon as the cause is identified.

On May 16, an electric car smoking occurred in an underground garage in Jiading, Shanghai. The vehicle involved was ES8, which caused the whole garage to be spread by thick smoke. Xilai Automobile said that fire officers and soldiers rushed to the scene to extinguish the smoke in time, and there was no personal or other property damage at the scene. The cause of the smoke in the vehicle is unknown. Xilai has launched an investigation and will announce it in time after the cause has been identified.

On April 22, a Lulai ES8 under maintenance in Xi'an 's authorized service center suddenly caught fire and was put out by the fire department. According to the investigation by Ullai, the cause of the accident was that the chassis of the vehicle had been seriously hit before it was sent for repair, resulting in a large area of deformation of the left rear shell of the power battery pack and the cooling plate; the internal structure of the battery package formed a short circuit after being squeezed for a period of time, eventually causing a fire.

With regard to the query about the recall of some ES8 by NIO, Huang Chendong, vice president of power engineering and head of research and development of NIO drive technology, said that the battery pack used by Shanghai accident vehicles was equipped with a module of specification model NEV-P50, and the voltage sampling harness in the module had the possibility of being squeezed by the cover plate of the module due to individual improper direction. In extreme cases, the insulating material on the surface of the extruded voltage sampling harness may be worn, resulting in short circuit and safety risks.

In response to netizens questioning whether NIO knew there were defects when replacing the module, Huang Chendong responded, "when switching, we did not know that there were security risks in the P50 module."

Huang Chendong said that now the company has launched a recall and will replace the NEV-P50 module battery pack free of charge for users using NEV-P102 (hereinafter referred to as P50) module battery pack as soon as possible.

With the increase of ownership, the number of spontaneous combustion accidents of electric vehicles is increasing, and many departments, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, have indicated that they will strengthen supervision and management to eliminate safety risks. But at present, the majority of consumers are most concerned about investigating and announcing the specific causes of these vehicles' spontaneous combustion as soon as possible.

Although in the car market in the cold winter to maintain growth, but the impact of subsidy slope has been shown, the growth rate of new energy vehicles has been much slower than before.

According to Li Bin in an exclusive interview, the decline of new energy subsidies is expected, but in fact, the impact on the sales of Lulai cars exceeds Wall Street's estimates. In the first quarter of this year, Xilai delivered a total of 3989 ES8. As of May, it delivered a total of 17550 ES8, of which more than 11000 were delivered last year. After entering 2019, the delivery volume of ES8 is lower than the market expected. Affected by this, the revenue of Xilai Motor halved in the first quarter compared with the previous quarter, and the loss expanded.

At present, NIO brand does not have a good reputation in the industry, with the policy fading, in the face of multiple shocks, how should NIO deal with it?

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