Hyderabad: At least three cars were burned down to ashes after an electric car, that was parked at Hyderabad Numaish Exhibition, caught fire on Saturday.
The fire that erupted from the electric car spread to five other vehicles in the parking lot in which three cars were burned down to ashes and two others had partially damaged, inspector B Prasada Rao informed.
The cause of the incident has not been ascertained yet.
Telangana and Andhra Pradesh last year witnessed about eight incidents of e-bikes, houses and even e-bike showrooms and a hotel catching fire due to e-batteries exploding, killing 10 people and injuring many others.
Almost all the incidents took place when e-bikes were kept on charge and it is suspected that overcharging triggered the explosions.
The biggest disaster happened in Hyderabad in September when eight people lost their lives after a fire broke out in an e-bike showroom in the cellar of a multi-storeyed building and spread to a hotel on the upper floors.
A month later a fire broke out in a motor showroom in Andhra Pradesh's Parvathipuram district. As many as 36 electric bikes were gutted in a huge fire in the showroom in Palakonda town.
E-bikes and batteries kept in the showroom for special discounted sale on Diwali were destroyed in the fire.
These were not isolated incidents. The Telugu states witnessed a series of fire accidents due to explosion of e-vehicle batteries.
In August two electric bikes caught fire as their batteries exploded while charging in Hyderabad.
(With inputs from IANS)
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