Two killed as Nio electric car falls from third floor office in Shanghai

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Two killed as Nio electric car falls from third floor office in Shanghai​

Two killed as Nio electric car falls from third floor office in Shanghai​

• By Peter Hoskins
• Business reporter

24 June 2022, 04:28 BST

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Two people inside the vehicle died in the incident
Chinese electric carmaker Nio says that two people were killed when one of its vehicles fell from the third floor of its headquarters in Shanghai.
One member of staff and a person from a partner company died in the crash.
The incident took place on Wednesday at about 17:20 local time, the firm said. The people who died were inside the vehicle as it fell from the building.
Nio says it immediately started an investigation into the incident in co-operation with government officials.
The third storey area from where the car fell has been variously described as a showroom, a testing facility or a car park.
"Our company has collaborated with public security department to launch the investigation and analysis of the cause of the accident. Based on the analysis of the situation at the scene, we can initially confirm that this was an accident (not caused by the vehicle)," the company said in a statement.
"We feel very sad about this accident and would like to express our deepest condolences to our colleague and partner employee who lost their lives. A team has been set up to help the families," it added.
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Nio's initial statement on Weibo attracted more than 1,000 comments within half an hour, but was then taken down.
The last sentence of the statement "not related to the vehicle itself" triggered many angry responses from social media users.
One comment read "it shows the cold blood of capitalism", while another said, "the last sentence is so indifferent. They [test drivers] came to test the vehicle, but you say [the accident] has nothing to do with the vehicle?".
Yet another Weibo user said: "It should be public security bureau to confirm if it's an accident or not."
The car maker has since posted a revised version of the statement, which still refers to the crash as an accident but now has "not caused by the vehicle" in brackets apparently to de-emphasise that part of the sentence. All the comments to the new post are now "RIP".
Nio is at the forefront of China's homegrown drive to dominate the electric vehicle industry. It has staked a lot on interchangeable batteries in its cars as a way to overcome customer concerns about frequent charging.
The company is a rival to multi-billionaire Elon Musk's US-based electric car maker Tesla, which has a major manufacturing plant in Shanghai.

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One social media user posted a photo, apparently taken from a nearby building, marking with a red circle the window from which the car fell

Electric car falls from China offices, killing two - BBC News

Pictures show a gaping hole in the side of car maker Nio's Shanghai HQ, and a smashed vehicle below.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Beast]

Two killed as Nio electric car falls from third floor office in Shanghai

Pictures show a gaping hole in the side of car maker Nio's Shanghai HQ, and a smashed vehicle below.

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Nio says it immediately started an investigation into the incident in co-operation with government officials.

The third storey area from where the car fell has been variously described as a showroom, a testing facility or a car park.


"Our company has collaborated with public security department to launch the investigation and analysis of the cause of the accident. Based on the analysis of the situation at the scene, we can initially confirm that this was an accident (not caused by the vehicle)," the company said in a statement.

"We feel very sad about this accident and would like to express our deepest condolences to our colleague and partner employee who lost their lives. A team has been set up to help the families," it added.

Looks like its more of a showroom mishandling by staff or human error rather than vehicle itself. How fast or far can it travel from showroom?

 

[REhorror]

More details needed, why do they test the car on the 3rd floor?
RIP to the 2 dead testers.

 

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

More details needed, why do they test the car on the 3rd floor?

Some cars drive on their own.

 

[khansaheeb]

people are mostly the cause of computer and mechanical mishaps. They should force all self driving/electric cars to have black boxes to record all car functions and sensors very much like aircraft.

 

[Skull and Bones]

Tragic, accidents happens

 

[Beast]

people are mostly the cause of computer and mechanical mishaps. The should force all self driving/electric cars to have black boxes to record all car functions and sensors very much like aircraft.

BS, Nio already clarify nothing to do with the car itself. Look at the share price of Nio, did it drop becos of this incident? Obviously , everything is clarify and human error problem. If someone wants to die, you can't stop them.

If it's really the car problem. Share price will drop and panic will happened. Share price don't lie.

 

[khansaheeb]

BS, Nio already clarify nothing to do with the car itself. Look at the share price of Nio, did it drop becos of this incident? Obviously , everything is clarify and human error problem. If someone wants to die, you can't stop them.

If it's really the car problem. Share price will drop and panic will happened. Share price don't lie.

BS, Let the truth come out then talk. If you read my post carefully I said "People" are cause of most problems but without adequate data collection how are we to know?

 

[Beast]

BS, Let the truth come out then talk. If you read my post carefully I said "People" are cause of most problems but without adequate data collection how are we to know?

Nio, is a listed company in US and China. You think they can hide things from public or withhold any truth? The fact investor are not scared and buying more Nio shares and push it's price higher , more or less speaks for it....

Some idiot want to drive their car and bang into Nio and killed someone. Does that mean it's Nio fault too? Don't blame any tom dick harry incident on Nio.

 

[khansaheeb]

Nio, is a listed company in US and China. You think they can hide things from public or withhold any truth? The fact investor are not scared and buying more Nio shares and push it's price higher , more or less speaks for it....

Some idiot want to drive their car and bang into Nio and killed someone. Does that mean it's Nio fault too? Don't blame any tom dick harry incident on Nio.

On the third floor of a building I don't think some idiot crashed into a NIO car. It would be interesting to know if it was technology failure or human factor that caused the car to crash. This concern is for Self Driving cars not just Chinese ones. I hop NIO don't cover up even if it is due technology and are transparent in the investigation and finding.