Prepare yourselves everyone—more electric cars have caught fire.
This time, Japanese automaker Mitsubishi has reported two battery fire incidents in Japan, related to two of its plug-in products—the Mitsubishi i electric car, and Outlander plug-in hybrid crossover.
A press release from Mitsubishi details each of the incidents, which happened within days of each other in March.
In the first incident, at Mitsubishi’s Mizushima plant in the Okayama prefecture of Japan, a battery pack undergoing charging and discharging inspection started to smoke, before catching fire an hour later.
The pack was not connected to a car at the time, and aside from damage to the battery unit and a charging cable, no other damage or injuries resulted. The fire was extinguished by the local fire department.
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