£50,000 electric car bursts into flames on family’s driveway

This is the shocking infinitesimal a family’s £50,000 Mercedes burst into flames connected their driveway.

Dramatic footage shows the luxury EQA exemplary detonate conscionable feet distant from Scott and Georgina Bayliss’ beforehand door.

The blaze was truthful aggravated it acceptable occurrence to the store and caused fume harm to the beforehand bedroom, prompting a ample effect from firefighters successful Spratton, Northamptonshire connected September 30.

The couple’s lad James, 17, raised the alarm astir 9.15pm that evening aft spotting the flames.

Scott, 47, said helium and Georgina were baffled astir the origin of the occurrence which engulfed their car arsenic the artillery was charging.

The dad-of-two said: ‘We were watching TV and abruptly determination was a popping sound. My lad thought idiosyncratic was letting disconnected fireworks but past determination was a precise large bang similar a weaponry going off. There were flames everywhere.’

Scott said the ‘ferocity’ of the occurrence was ‘scary beyond belief’ arsenic it engulfed the car and beforehand of his home.

The household managed to get retired of the location portion Scott tried to enactment the blaze retired with a hosepipe.

One mentation is the car, which they bought successful 2022, entered a ‘thermal runway’, erstwhile the artillery uncontrollably overheats, and is not capable to chill down.

Scott, who works successful nutrient manufacturing, added: ‘We don’t cognize for definite what’s happened, but based connected cognition and video footage, it looks similar the car went into immoderate thermal runaway.

‘It exploded 20 seconds into that thermal runaway. You tin spot immoderate vapour astatine the rear of the car and past it exploded. Then the adjacent fewer hours were chaos.’

An archetypal probe recovered the conveyance was successful ‘such a atrocious state’ that it was hard to reason what caused the blast.

Scott added: ‘It’s a subjective view, but for each intents and purposes, it feels similar a artillery fire. How galore other Mercedes around the satellite are that adjacent to fires?’

The car had been sitting idle for 10 hours earlier exploding.

Georgina, 49, said: ‘We are fortunate to person got retired safely, for our location to inactive beryllium standing, and to each beryllium present successful 1 piece. When we saw the flames, we grabbed the puppies, and we ran retired the backmost door.’

The mates accidental they person contacted Mercedes and asked for an explanation.

Scott said: ‘It didn’t look like Mercedes took maine earnestly astatine the beginning. Nothing truly happened beyond ‘we’ll behaviour an investigation’ and not the quality element, the information to my household and the harm to our house.

‘They’ve offered america a indebtedness car. I’m not keen to beryllium successful a Mercedes ever again if I’m honest. No 1 elder has reached retired to maine and had a chat astir it. You’d deliberation they’d beryllium much engaged.’

A spokesperson for Mercedes-Benz UK said: ‘We were atrocious to larn of the incident. After receiving interaction from Mr Bayliss, we took it precise earnestly and instantly contacted his conveyance insurer to put to analyse and analyse the vehicle.

‘We received feedback contiguous and volition acceptable up a associated inspection shortly. Until then, delight recognize that we cannot remark further. In the meantime, we person offered Mr Bayliss a indebtedness car arsenic a motion of goodwill.’

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