{"id":140684,"date":"2025-11-18T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140684"},"modified":"2025-11-18T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T00:00:10","slug":"could-battery-fires-be-the-achilles-heel-of-chinas-electric-vehicle-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140684","title":{"rendered":"Could battery fires be the Achilles\u2019 heel of China\u2019s electric vehicle industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA series of electric vehicle fires in China has pushed the issue of battery safety into the public spotlight, triggering a wider public debate about the potential risks.<br \/>\nLast month saw a number of high-profile incidents, including one on October 13 in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, where a Xiaomi EV burst into flames after a high-speed crash, killing the driver.<br \/>\nOn October 23 in Shanghai, a Li Auto car suddenly burst into flames on a bumpy road, becoming fully engulfed within 10&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3332302\/could-battery-fires-be-achilles-heel-chinas-electric-vehicle-industry?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA series of electric vehicle fires in China has pushed the issue of battery safety into the public spotlight, triggering a wider public debate&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140684"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}