Just in the month that BYD announced All in new energy, nearly 10,000 BYD Tang DM electric vehicles were recalled due to safety issues.
On April 29, BYD Automotive Industry Co., Ltd. filed a recall plan with the State Administration for Market Regulations in accordance with the requirements of the Regulations on the Administration of recalls of defective automobile products and the Implementation Measures for the Administration of the Recall of Defective Automobile Products.
Decided to recall a total of 9,663 electric vehicles of some Tang DM models produced from September 2, 2021 to March 14, 2022, starting from April 29, 2022.
Due to manufacturing reasons, the installation surface of the pallet breathable valve is uneven and there is a risk of water ingress due to manufacturing reasons. This may cause the electrical circuit failure of the power battery system, and in extreme cases, there is a risk of thermal runaway of the power battery, and there is a safety hazard.
Previously, the incident of bydir car fire was frequently exposed. On November 22 last year, a BYD electric vehicle suddenly caught fire in the basement, the model was suspected to be BYD Qin Pro EV, and the incident occurred in the underground garage of No. 1 in Zhongguancun, Beijing.
Judging from the on-site pictures, the body of the fire-fired electric vehicle and the ground of the surrounding parking garage have been blackened, and the frame is basically left intact.
The circle of friends of the owner of the network said that he did not expect to experience the explosion of the electric car, when he suddenly heard the sound in the car, he felt wrong, and quickly took the child out of the car to escape, fortunately people are fine. After making the transcript, I returned to the scene and saw the car burning like this, I was really afraid. At the same time, the owner said he needed help from a lawyer.
In response to this matter, BYD responded: "According to our understanding, the fire at the scene was extinguished in time, no explosion occurred, and there were no casualties." The vehicle will be sold in early 2019, and the specific reasons will be further investigated by the relevant departments. ”
Coincidentally. On May 12 and April 14 last year, a BYD E5 electric vehicle that was not in a charging state caught fire and spontaneously combusted when parked at the Nanyou Charging Station in Longgang, Shenzhen.
BYD believes that the recall of vehicles will have too great an impact on it, which will cause huge economic losses, and the same batch of vehicles involved do not need to be recalled.
In addition to safety issues such as battery fires, the "abnormal sound", "paid upgrades", "can't mention the car" and "too ugly" and other issues of some BYD models have also been complained about by many car owners.
It is worth noting that in public publicity, BYD has repeatedly emphasized the safety of its batteries. When BYD's blade battery was released in 2020, Wang Chuanfu, chairman and president of BYD, said: "Blade batteries will redefine the safety standards of new energy vehicles, and the word 'spontaneous combustion' should be completely erased from the dictionary of new energy vehicles." ”
At present, IT seems that BYD still has a long way to go to achieve the security goals mentioned by Wang Chuanfu.