The most terrible thing about the spontaneous combustion of electric vehicles is that the doors cannot be opened, and the electronic door locks cannot be opened after the power is off, which aggravates the severity of the accident.
According to reports, on October 10, local time, a Tesla in Gyeonggi Province, Korea, hit an obstacle and caught fire, and after firefighters extinguished the fire, they found the driver dead in the back seat.
Police speculated that the driver was conscious after the impact and tried to escape, but the fire started in front of the vehicle and climbed into the back seat. He made several unsuccessful attempts to open the door and was eventually burned to death in his car.
Tesla's doors are opened with hidden door handles, making it difficult for outsiders to pull the doors through the hidden door handles if the inside of the car is unlocked.
The vehicle's dashcam showed that the white Tesla collided with a roadside rock, and an open flame erupted from the chassis of the vehicle. The local fire brigade sent 20 fire trucks and 60 personnel to extinguish the fire.
Police said they would find out exactly why the doors wouldn't open to determine if there were design or manufacturing defects.
At the same time, the police will also evaluate the overall safety performance of Tesla's electric vehicles to ensure the safety of consumers' lives and property. At present, Tesla has not responded to this.
The accident has once again raised public concerns about the safety of electric vehicles, especially regarding the reliability of the door lock system in an emergency.
In China, Tesla has also had cases of door handles and windows failing. According to media reports, on May 14, a Tesla in Shanghai crashed into a wall and caught fire.
According to the scene footage, it can be seen that Tesla's door did not open automatically after the fire, and passers-by chose to break the window to save people, but fortunately, the driver's life was not in danger.
In April this year, a Tesla in Zibo, Shandong Province, crashed into a protective fence, and then the vehicle caught fire, but the windows and doors were not opened, and passing firefighters used a crowbar to break the window to save people.
Hidden door handles have once again become a hot spot of public attention, in fact, Tesla is not the only one who has adopted this design, many new energy brands have products with similar designs.
With the development of new energy in recent years, more and more cars have adopted hidden door handles, and more and more people use them, resulting in more and more obvious problems.
The first is the high failure rate, sometimes the door handle of the new energy fails and cannot be opened, and even can not be reset and other problems often occur, in various automobile forums, there are many people complaining about it.
There is also a very poor practicality, just like in winter, when the weather is cold, the hidden door handle is easy to freeze to death, and the door cannot be opened.
The most important thing is that the safety hazard is too great, and the chain is always dropped at a critical time, just like this time the vehicle is on fire, and the door cannot be opened, and there is no way to rescue in time, resulting in death.
A few more words
Have you ever been worried that a car accident will cause a raging fire, but the doors will be locked tightly and there is nowhere to escape?
In the past two years, new energy electric vehicles have caught fire and burned, causing casualties, and have repeatedly been on the hot search.
In fact, whether it is an electric vehicle or a fuel vehicle, whether the door can be opened smoothly after an accident is very important for escape and rescue.