Hyundai Kona EV exploded in the garage in the canadian

29 July 2019

A brand new electric car smashed private garage in Canada

The name of the canadian town of île-Bizar near Montreal on Friday sounded for all the world as a result of the explosion. No, it was not fusion and not even a terrorist explosion, and purely domestic, but the information wave from the detonation of a typical private garage already circled the globe.

The reason for this spontaneous combustion and explosion of sufficient force electric 150-kilowatt crossover Hyundai Kona Electric with a battery capacity of 64 kWh.

According to reports the canadian CBC electric car, standing in a private garage is not even connected to the charger, for unexplained reasons yet first caught fire and then exploded in the garage of a private house.

The explosion knocked the garage door and took out most of the roof. The owner of the electric car in an interview with the CBC said, "If we were in front of the garage door, we would be in the hospital."
Interestingly, a particular instance of the electric car was purchased by the owner in March of this year. Firefighters found the garage no other reasons for fire and explosion.
This is the first case of fire Kona Electric also accompanied by a very serious explosion.

In all, there is no evidence that electric cars more fire and burn faster than conventional petrol and diesel engines.

PS the growth of the fleet of electric vehicles will inevitably increase and the number of related emergency, including accidents and fires, as they say it is something everyday. And yet such a serious incident (well, not became a tragedy) could undermine not only the reputation of a new and very promising model, but also the reputation of the manufacturer, of course, if he will not react as quickly as possible and do not eliminate the cause of the fire and explosion. Otherwise, history may repeat itself with the fires of the smartphone Samsung Galaxy Note 7, which led to multibillion-dollar losses of the Samsung group.

P. P. S. Perhaps the fire is to blame innovation system "thermal management" (for installation) battery Kona EV, which heats and, consequently, cools the battery. it is Characteristic that for the entire United States from this system to electrocreaser Kona EV, Hyundai Motor company chose to give up...