• Nio is a Chinese electric car manufacturer.
• Two people died when one of its vehicles fell from the third storey of its Shanghai headquarters.
• The company’s statement referred to the incident as an accident “not related to the vehicle itself”.

According to Nio, a Chinese electric car manufacturer, two individuals died when one of its vehicles fell from the third storey of its Shanghai headquarters.

In the collision, two people from the company’s partner company and one employee perished.

According to the company, the issue happened on Wednesday at around 17:20 local time. When the car fell from the structure, the persons who died were inside.

According to Nio, an investigation into the occurrence was launched right away in collaboration with government officials.

A showroom, a testing facility, or a parking lot have all been used to characterise the third-floor space where the automobile landed.

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“In order to start the inquiry and analyse the reason of the accident, our organisation worked with the public security department. We can first affirm that this was an accident (not caused by the car) based on the study of the circumstances at the site “In a statement, the company added.

“We are really saddened by this event and would like to send our sincere sympathies to our partner employee and colleague who perished. To assist the families, a team has been formed “It was ad.

Within a half-hour, more than 1,000 people commented on Nio’s initial Weibo post before it was removed.

Social media users reacted angrily to the final clause of the statement, “not related to the vehicle itself.”

One remark read “One person commented, “It displays the cold blood of capitalism,” while another, “The last sentence is so uninteresting. They [test drivers] came to test the car, but you claim that the car is not to blame for the accident “.

Another Weibo user remarked: “The public security agency should determine whether or not it is an accident.”

Since then, the automaker has produced a revised statement that still refers to the collision as an accident but now includes the phrase “not caused by the vehicle” in parentheses to, ostensibly, downplay that aspect of the sentence. Now, “RIP” appears in every remark on the new post.

The Chinese initiative to dominate the electric vehicle market is led by Nio. To allay customers’ worries about needing to charge their cars frequently, it has placed a lot of faith in removable batteries in its vehicles.

The business is a rival to the US-based electric car manufacturer Tesla, owned by multi-billionaire Elon Musk, who also operates a sizable production facility in Shanghai.

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