Hyundai Kona Electric Explodes, Blows Hole In Garage: Cause Unknown

Hyundai Kona Electric Explodes, Blows Hole In Garage: Cause Unknown

JUL 28, 2019 at 2:16PM

Lithium has offered us the most efficient battery until now, but it is also very flammable.

This is why any fire situation with a huge lithium-ion battery may be very difficult to extinguish.

The newest such case comes from Canada.

More specifically from Île-Bizard, Montreal. And it involves a vehicle that had not presented any similar problem until now, the Hyundai Kona Electric.

Piero Cosentino

bought his last March. On July 26, he was about to have lunch when he heard an explosion and the fire alarm went off. Thick black smoke was coming from the door that leads to his garage.

https://insideevs.com/news/362202/hyundai-kona-electric-explodes-canada/