It’s not that enemies don’t get together! Recently, some netizens broke the news that an Ideal ONE caught fire after rear-ending a Weilai EC6 on the highway. Pictures posted online show that the rear of the Weilai EC6 was severely damaged and deformed, with the rear trunk glass cracked, one side of the bumper dented, and the taillight cracked. The Ideal ONE on the other side had a fire in the front engine room. It is reported that both drivers and passengers were fine. The cause of the accident is under investigation, and the official has not yet responded.
Some netizens said that the force of the rear-end collision was not small, but it did not cause a fire. It seemed to be an oil circuit problem. The overall rigidity of NIO was not bad, but the ideal materials were not enough.
Ideal ONE and Weilai EC6 are both successful representatives of new car-making forces. They are both teammates and opponents. They are both "disadvantaged". Could it be that they are in line with Cao Zhi's seven-step poem: "Cooking beans burns the beans, and the beans are in the cauldron." Weeping. They are born from the same roots, why are they so impatient?"
At the same time, which one of the two is safer has also attracted much attention from consumers. At the beginning of this year, China Insurance Research Institute announced the latest crash test results. In terms of crash resistance and maintenance economy, the NIO EC6 is better than the Ideal ONE.
Although they are all internet celebrities in the car industry, everyone's attention was focused on Ideal ONE in this collision. This seemed to make Li Auto's public relations team quite nervous, because this is not the first time that Ideal ONE has been involved in a collision and caught fire. .
In May last year, on the streets of Changsha, Hunan, an Ideal ONE caught fire due to foreign objects adhering to the interior of the front cabin of the vehicle. According to the live video circulated on the Internet at the time, a large amount of thick smoke came out of the cabin in front of the accident vehicle and was accompanied by a fire. After the open flame was extinguished, the front face and front hood of the vehicle were almost completely burned.
In August last year, an accident involving an ideal ONE on a highway in Zhaoqing, Guangdong caused the vehicle to catch fire. The cause of the accident was initially determined to be that an object that looked like a piece of iron was rolled up by the high-speed vehicle and penetrated. High-pressure fuel pipes cause fuel to splash and ignite due to the high temperature of the exhaust pipe.
Although it has been the third time that Ideal ONE has been caught on fire, this time Ideal ONE has not made a big splash on the Internet. Even when someone posted a picture online, some people questioned it in the comment area as news last year. A non-automotive influencer who posted the news that Lideal ONE caught fire after rear-ending a Weilai EC6 on the highway said that he had been privately chatted with by his publicist. "It's not that the fire is abnormal, but it's abnormal that no one discusses it," the blogger said.
The editor reminded me of the multiple "shaft breakage" accidents in which the Ideal ONE was burned out in succession last year. Nine months, 20,000 vehicles, six broken axles. Is it an accident or a quality problem?
The six broken axles were caused by being hit by other vehicles, the vehicle itself hit a road block, or it happened while driving normally. Although the reasons are different, the same is that the vehicle has broken its axle after experiencing varying degrees of collision. Some netizens said, "Is it reasonable that the axle will be broken after a collision?" "The axle will be broken in every accident?"
Although it encountered safety problems such as fires and broken shafts, it did not seem to affect the sales performance of Ideal ONE. The latest data shows that the sales volume of Ideal ONE reached 7,649 units in October this year, a year-on-year increase of 107.2%, and the cumulative sales in 2021 will reach 62,919 units. As Li Auto currently has only one model on sale, its actual sales volume proves that it’s not about having too many cars, it’s about being refined.
In addition, there were 14,500 new orders for Ideal ONE in October. As of early November, Li Auto had rolled out 100,000 vehicles in just 708 days.
