Safety issues related to electric vehicles have become prominent along with the increasing inventory of electric vehicles. This paper has intensively studied characteristics and laws of typical out-of-control accidents of electric vehicles and analyze internal and external factors and mechanisms of such accidents in combination with the in-depth investigation of traffic accidents of electric vehicles. On this basis, a new identification scheme has been proposed for checking and identifying core components of electric vehicles by applying the hardware-in-the-loop test technology to identify out-of-control accidents of electric vehicles. According to the study findings, since similarities can be found in the type of typical out-of-control accidents of electric vehicles, satisfying the identification requirement of core components of electric vehicles with the improved hardware-in-the-loop test scheme is crucial for investigating causes of the out-of-control accidents of electric vehicles.

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