Two people die after an electric car falls from a building in China

Chinese electric carmaker Nio confirmed that two people were killed on Wednesday when one of its vehicles fell from the third floor of the company’s headquarters building in Shanghai. China.

The deceased are a Nio worker and another from a partner company.

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The incident occurred last Wednesday, June 22, around 5:20 p.m. local time, the firm reported. The people who died were inside the vehicle. when it fell from the building.

child announced that it had launched an immediate investigation into the incident in cooperation with government officials.

The third-floor area from which the car fell has been variously described as a showroom, testing facility, or parking lot.

“Our company has cooperated with the public security department to launch an investigation and analyze the cause of the accident. Based on the situation analysis at the scene, we can confirm in advance that this it was an accident (not caused by the vehicle)“, the company said in a statement.

“We feel very sad about this accident and we want to express our deepest condolences to our colleague and business partner who lost their lives. A team has been formed to help the families,” he added.

Terrible story of two test drivers at #China‘s electrical vehicle manufacturer NIO being killed when a car somehow smashed out of a building and came crashing down from a great height. pic.twitter.com/4ZNI2t7LqZ

— Stephen McDonell (@StephenMcDonell) June 23, 2022

anger in social networks

Nio’s opening statement in Chinese Weibo platform attracted more than 1,000 comments in half an hour, but was later removed.

The last sentence of the statement, explaining that the accident “was not linked to the vehicle as such”, provoked many angry responses from social media users.

“This shows the cold blood of capitalismSaid one of the comments.

“The last sentence is so nonchalant. They (testers) came to test the car, but are you saying that (the accident) had nothing to do with the vehicle?” commented another user.

“It should be the public security office that confirms whether it was an accident or not,” another comment read.

A social media user posted a photo, apparently taken from a nearby building, circling in red the window from which the car presumably fell. (WEIBO).

The automaker has since released a revised version of the statement, which still refers to the crash as an accident, but now has “not caused by the vehicle” in parentheses, apparently to de-emphasize that part of the sentence.

All comments to the new publication are now the acronym for may they rest in peace.

Nio is at the forefront of China’s local initiative to dominate the electric vehicle industry. It has made a big bet on swappable batteries in its cars as a way to overcome customer concerns about frequently needing to charge vehicles.

Nio is a rival of Teslathe American billionaire electric vehicle manufacturer Elon Muskwhich has a production plant in Shanghai.

Problems also for Toyota

It is not being the best week for the electric car industry.

Less than two months after launching the bZ4X electric model, the giant of the automotive industry Toyota will withdraw 2,700 copies in USA, Europe, Canada Y Japan over concerns that its tires could come off, according to Annabelle Liang, a BBC business reporter.

Toyota bZ4X model. (GETTY IMAGES).

A spokesman told the BBC that the bZ4X’s wheel bolts “can loosen to the point where the wheel can detach from the vehicle” after “low mileage use”.

“If a wheel comes off the vehicle while driving, you could lose control of the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash. No one should drive these vehicles until remediation is done,” he added.

The BBC understands that some bZ4X models have not been recalled. However, Toyota declined to comment on how many vehicles the company had made.

The car manufacturer Subaru It also says that for the same reason it will withdraw from the market 2,600 electric cars that it developed with Toyota.

Source: Elcomercio