Vehicle caught fire at Canoo headquarters after battery test

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The vehicle at the EV start-up Canoo caught fire on August 24 after a lithium-ion battery left in the car started a fire. The local fire department was able to put out the fire and no one was hurt. According to an incident report obtained by The Verge.A fire broke out in a car park outside Canoo's Torrance Company in California. which was once the head office of startups before starting calling Bentonville, Arkansas, home in November.

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Agnes Gomes-Koizumi Canoo's vice president of communications confirmed the fire happened after The Verge requested comment. "A minor fire occurred hours after the deliberate destruction test of the battery module," Gomes said in an emailed statement. noting that the module passed the test and was not flammable. The fire occurred because “Someone placed the module in an improperly sealed container,” she wrote.

The box in which the module was placed was pressurized and resulted in an incident.Gomes said the car was not a Canoo prototype, but a third-party freight car the company rented or bought. Incident reports indicate that as Ford Canoo announced a battery deal from Panasonic Sanyo subsidiary in October. It is unclear who made the fire-related batteries.

Canoo is working towards its goal of starting electric van production in late 2022, although it has changed management along the way. which includes this month The loss of the chief technology officer and two of the five remaining co-founders.