On May 2 1 day, Li released the Letter of Apology about the fire in Changsha No.1 Middle School on May 8 in his official Weibo, and announced the final investigation results.
As we all know, the causes of frequent fires in electric vehicles are nothing more than aging lines, short circuit of batteries, mismatched chargers and so on.
Unexpectedly, the cause of Li's fire is just like the "smoke in the front engine room" they claimed before, which makes people laugh and cry: it is neither the engine nor the motor, nor the battery pack, but the foreign body attached to the front surface of the exhaust pipe in the lower right part of the front engine room.
According to Li's investigation results, the cause of the fire was that foreign objects were attached to the front surface of the exhaust pipe in the lower right part of the front engine room, which was the paint protection pad left in the front engine room during the preparation of the accident vehicle before delivery.
At noon on May 8, a video of a fire in the front engine room of Changsha Li No.1 was widely circulated on the Internet, which also made the public strongly question Li's safety.
The combustion is located in the engine compartment. Because Li ONE is an extended-range electric vehicle, complex structures such as engine, motor and oil circuit are arranged in the engine compartment.
It can be seen from the wreckage after the fire is extinguished that the accident vehicle has been burned beyond recognition.
Immediately after the accident, Li made a statement on the social platform and his official website, introducing the process of spontaneous combustion accident, and said that the follow-up investigation results will be released in time.
The main victim of this accident, that is, the owner of Li Yizhong's spontaneous combustion, also announced the accident process on the App, and introduced that through preliminary investigation and judgment, it was indicated that the problem of this accident was not the problem of the range extender and the oil circuit, nor the problem of the battery and motor that everyone said.
The accident vehicle has been burned beyond recognition. For the owner's statement, many people can only say ha ha.
Li's investigation conclusion is highly consistent with the owner's previous statement, so I can only say hehe.
In the past few days, the "heat" on Li has been constant, and news such as brake failure, spontaneous combustion of smoke, leaking rain on the roof and broken axle have emerged one after another.
For an automobile brand that has just been mass-produced and listed, frequent failures undoubtedly increase consumers' concerns about the quality of Li products.
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The repeated exposure of safety issues is gradually killing the market's tolerance for new car manufacturers. For the latecomers who have not yet mass-produced, there are fewer and fewer opportunities for "trial and error".
"No more mistakes" is the basic requirement of new car manufacturers in the current market, especially the core issue of vehicle and personal safety, which cannot be sloppy. Otherwise, in the current special period, it is tantamount to digging your own grave and speeding up your resignation.
Li Xiang himself once said: consumers will not have the slightest sympathy because they are electric cars and new enterprises, and consumers do not owe new enterprises, so feelings are useless.
This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.