Dramatic footage has emerged out of China displaying the second an electric bus caught fireplace, triggering a blaze that unfold to 4 different buses.

The incident came about on a college campus in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Area and was caught on safety digicam.

Initially, all appears high quality however after only a few seconds, smoke will be seen billowing out from one of many buses. Nearly immediately, it explodes in a ball of fireside. This doesn’t simply set alight a few giant rubbish bins positioned subsequent to the bus but additionally causes a second bus to catch fireplace. The inferno then spreads to a 3rd electrical bus and earlier than lengthy, a fourth is engulfed in flames as nicely.

Learn Additionally: Volkswagen Group To Turn Greek Island Into An EV Paradise

In keeping with South China Morning Post, fireplace crews arrived on the scene roughly 20 minutes after the hearth began and have been capable of shortly extinguish the blaze. Nonetheless, 4 of the 5 buses have been utterly destroyed and solely one in all them managed to flee with out severe injury.

Luckily, nobody was within the buses on the time and nobody was injured. The reason for the hearth remains to be being investigated.

This isn’t the primary time footage has been captured of an electric vehicle dramatically catching fire in China. In September final 12 months, a video was posted on-line displaying what seemed to be a BAIC EX360 exploding in a ball of flames after being sprayed by fireplace crews with chilly water when it caught fireplace whereas charging.