ALL 33 electric vehicles destroyed in a fire had all already been purchased.
The blaze in a Southampton dock area saw £1million worth of Chinese EVs destroyed earlier this week.
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A blaze destroyed 33 EVs in Southampton Credit: SWNS
The Jaecoo cars had already been bought by customers Credit: SWNS
The fire, which started in the early hours of the morning on Wednesday (June 3), destroyed the Jaecoo vehicles that were in the care of National Vehicle Distribution.
“Explosions” were heard by locals in the middle of the night, with 10 fire engines rushing to fight the blaze.
It’s thought that the wrecked cars are Jaecoo’s E5 models.
Prices for the cars start at £27,505.
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The fire filled the area with black smoke
The vehicles were left charred and destroyed Credit: Tony Kershaw / SWNS
The estimated total of the cars destroyed is almost £1million and it’s believed that all of them had already been purchased by Jaecoo customers.
Jaecoo is one of the fastest growing Chinese EV manufacturers on the global market and is now one of the UK’s best-selling car brands.
It remains unclear what caused the fire but Jaecoo has confirmed that it is aware of the incident and is looking into what happened.
A Jaecoo spokesperson told the Daily Mail: “Omoda & Jaecoo UK has been informed of a fire at Southampton docks. The fire was reported at around 4am and was under control within one hour.
“There are no reported injuries. The incident is under investigation at this time.”
Dockyard operators, Associated British Ports, added: “There has been a fire in a vehicle storage compound in the Western Docks area of the Port of Southampton. All personnel are safely accounted for.”
