Xiaomi is required to recall 370 thousand electric vehicles

Xiaomi must, on its own initiative, recall 370,000 SU7 electric vehicles due to potentially dangerous door handles. The Chinese media outlet Yicai wrote about this on February 27.

The publication refers to the conclusion of the Center for Forensic Examination of Road Accidents in Sichuan province on the circumstances of the accident that occurred on October 13 last year. Then the driver died in the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra electric car that caught fire after a collision.

Despite the fact that many people participated in the rescue operation, they were unable to open the car door. The conclusion of the forensic experts indicated that the driver died from a fire, and the power outage after the collision led to a malfunction of the door handle.

If the SU7 Ultra had been equipped with mechanical exterior door handles, rescuers would have had a much better chance of pulling the driver out of the cockpit before the explosion, according to Yicai journalists.

In China, the mandatory national standard "Technical Safety Requirements for Automobile Door Handles" (GB 48001-2026), developed and prepared by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, will enter into force on January 1. It explicitly requires that each car door be equipped with a mechanically opening exterior door handle and a mechanically opening interior door handle. In addition, the exterior door handles should not be completely hidden.

Xiaomi has used new door handles in the YU7 crossover and the new generation SU7, which will switch to mechanical communication with locks in the event of a collision.

However, the first-generation SU7, produced in an amount of about 370,000, continues to be used on public roads and poses significant safety risks.

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