Xiaopeng responded to the car fire accident: caused by collision

As new energy vehicles become a major trend in the market, some shortcomings of lithium batteries have gradually been exposed. On August 11, Beijing time, a driving Xiaopeng Motors G3 suddenly caught fire in Zhuhai, Guangzhou.

In the afternoon of the same day, Xiaopeng Motors issued a statement on Weibo in response to this, stating that the Xiaopeng Motors G3 did not cause any casualties. The reason why the Xiaopeng Motors G3 suddenly caught fire was mainly because the battery box had obvious bumps and squeezed the battery, causing sudden behavior.

Coincidentally, in addition to Xiaopeng Motors, cars from new car manufacturers such as NIO, Ideal, and Tesla have all experienced sudden fires. Although these manufacturers attributed the cause of the fire to external force impact, it cannot be ignored that current new energy vehicles all use ternary lithium batteries with higher energy density and greater instability. Therefore, this must be a major factor in the frequent fires of these new energy vehicles.

However, it is worth noting that the industry has already seen the defects of ternary lithium batteries and has begun to explore new technologies. For example, the battery equipped with the BYD Han that was released some time ago uses clever stacking to make the more stable lithium iron phosphate battery have the high energy density of ternary lithium batteries.

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