June 23, 2022
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Nexon electric car catches fire in Mumbai
A video shared by Twitter user @KamalJoshi108, showing one of the company’s electric cars engulfed in flames, went viral on social media on Wednesday evening. It showed firefighters trying to extinguish the fire in a Nexon electric vehicle EV in a suburb of Mumbai.
Nexon is one of India’s best-selling electric passenger cars with 9,111 sold in 2021, up from just 2,529 in 2020.
Tata Motors said this was the first such incident involving any of its EVs, of which it has sold more than 30,000.A detailed investigation is currently being conducted to ascertain the facts of the recent isolated thermal incident that is doing the rounds on social media. We will share a detailed response after our complete investigation,” Tata Motors , India’s biggest manufacturer of electric cars said in a statement.
The incident follows a spate of electric scooter fires that have hampered sales and triggered an investigation by the Indian government in March.
Initial findings of the investigation, conducted by the DRDO, indicated that most of the fires were down to faulty battery cells and modules.EV fires will happen. Happens in all global products too. EV fires are much less frequent than internal combustion engine fires