The central media named, Weima was burned by the car, locked electricity!

WM electric vehicles spontaneously combusted frequently and refused to admit fire identification

On January 20, in Sanya, Hainan, another spontaneous combustion accident of WM EX5 electric vehicles occurred.

Mr. Wang, the driver, said that from hearing the sound and seeing the smoke to the fire, the whole process is ten seconds. Fortunately, the reaction was fast and stopped immediately, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

After the incident, the local fire rescue brigade made a "Fire Accident Identification Letter", which identified the cause of the fire as follows: the fire point "power battery"; the cause of the fire "battery failure caused the fire".

However, WM refused to acknowledge the fire-fighting appraisal report, insisting that its car was no problem, saying: Although the fire agency determined that the cause of the fire was battery failure, WM did not agree, but believed that it was a fire caused by the collision.

Suspected of secretly "locking the electricity"

In addition to spontaneous combustion accidents, many Weijia owners also suspect that in order to avoid spontaneous combustion of battery failure, Weima has carried out "remote locking"!

Mr. Li was one of the first buyers of WM Motors in 2018, but since entering the store in June 2021 and making an "upgrade", the mileage has shrunk significantly.

In a rights protection group alone, there are more than 200 car owners, who have reported that they have encountered serious attenuation of the mileage.

Some Ningbo car owners said that they bought the WM EX5 400 km endurance, and the discount endurance for normal driving is 200 km, which has been discounted by 50%. After the vehicle maintenance and repair inspection came back, it is basically only about 120 kilometers of endurance, which is already 30% off.

In response to the doubts of many users, WM insisted that there was no power lock at all.

According to the owner of the car, Mr. Zhou, "I even cooperated with their requirements, entered the store to do the test, the funny thing is that my 400-kilometer car can only run 200 kilometers, but the store said that my battery health is 96%, and there is no locking, which is completely inconsistent with common sense and is insulting the intelligence of consumers." ”

Cars with locked electricity are usually vehicles with potential battery safety hazards.

What kind of mood is it for those owners who are forcibly locked without being told the reason, who drive a car with a significant reduction in mileage every day, and who are worried that their car will catch fire and spontaneously combust every day?

Online fermentation continues, "locking electricity" is already the unspoken rule of the industry?

It is worth mentioning that in October 2020, WM announced that a total of 1282 EX5 models were recalled, and the reason for the recall was that "the battery supplier mixed impurities in the production process, resulting in abnormal lithium analysis in the battery, which in extreme cases can lead to a short circuit of the battery, trigger the thermal runaway of the power battery and produce the risk of fire, which is a safety hazard."

According to the complaint platform data of the car quality network, the complaints about WM Motors are almost all like this:

WM EX5 mileage shortening affects normal use,

After the WM EX5 upgrade, the vehicle cannot be fully charged, resulting in a decrease in battery life,

WM EX5 vehicle and machine system upgrade follow-up aircraft descent forced locking.

Such a "power lock" situation also appears in WM's EX6, W6, and other popular models on sale.

In this regard, the Guangdong channel recently sent 3 WM cars used by users to a third-party testing agency for testing, and found that there is a possibility of being considered to reduce the power.

Wang Xudong, president of the Testing and Appraiser Branch of the China Automobile Dealers Association, said:

Comparing the normal mileage car with the few problematic cars sent for inspection, it was found that its charging pile showed 100% when fully charged, but the actual power we read from the decoder was only 89%.

From the perspective of professional technology, the power lock is to make some restrictions, one is to prevent spontaneous combustion, and the other is to discharge the power of not less than 20%, in order to reduce the loss rate as much as possible during the warranty period.

Similar foreign rights protection incidents on the attenuation of power battery mileage have made new progress. In May 2021, Norway penalized Tesla's old Model S and Model X batteries for attenuation.

WM electric vehicles are selling well, and the new forces rank sixth

WM officially disclosed that it sold 3,311 new cars in February, an increase of 309.8% year-on-year.

In 2021, a total of 44,157 smart pure electric vehicles were delivered, an increase of 96.3% year-on-year, close to the total cumulative delivery volume in the past three years.

On October 5 last year, WM announced that D1 had received about $500 million in financing. Led by PCCW and Shun Tak Group, and invested by GF Shun Tak's US dollar investment institutions, the financing amount exceeded US$300 million.

Weima is the darling of the market.

WM Motor, founded in 2015, takes its name from the German-speaking World Champion (Weltmeister).

Since its inception, it has claimed to uphold the original intention of "scientific and technological inclusion" and to "use cool and affordable" products and services.

But now, many car owners are saying that they are not happy to drive a horse.

In addition to the shortening of the cruising range, WM has also been complained by the owner of a series of quality control problems such as the braking system, the poor workmanship of the vehicle, the abnormal sound, the caton of the car and the air leakage of the body.

At present, there are 156 complaints about WM Motors on the car quality network platform, and 301 complaints about "WM" on the black cat platform.

epilogue

The most intuitive impact of "locking electricity" is the decline in vehicle mileage. Mileage anxiety is a consumption pain point that everyone is particularly concerned about, and the decline in battery life directly affects everyone's emotions.

Whether it is the decline in product strength, or a series of problems such as spontaneous combustion or power locking, WM has reached the point where it needs to be vigorously rectified.

As an influential automobile company, if the problems of WM Automobile's users are true, then WM should actively assume the obligations and responsibilities of car recall, replacement of qualified batteries, and provision of solutions.

Instead of refusing to face these problems directly, the company should pay for it and transfer it to the user to pay the bill.