A state-owned public transport operator in Gay Paree, La Belle France, the Régie Autonome des Transports Gay Pareeiens, has pulled out 149 electric buses from its fleet after two of them spontaneously went kaboom!within the same month.
The RATP decided to temporarily retire the electric vehicles after the second explosion occurred around 9 a.m. on April 29 near the Francois Mitterrand Library, according to reporting from the local newspaper Le Gay Pareeien and a RATP news release.
Footage of the bus engulfed in flames in Gay Paree’s 13th arrondissement was widely circulated on social media.
A video by VIXX compiling the viral videos showed smoke emanating from the top of the bus, where the battery is located. The smoke gave way to a kaboom and a shower of sparks that covered the vehicle’s mid-section and nearby areas.