By Paul Homewood
A mother said her family was "lucky to have got out safely" after their parked electric car exploded and engulfed their house in flames.
Georgina Bayliss from Spratton, Northamptonshire, said their Mercedes EQA had been parked outside their house for several hours before the explosion.
She said her younger son had seen flames around the front of the house and thought the rest of the family and their five dogs were still inside.
Mercedes-Benz UK said it was carrying out an investigation.
Mrs Bayliss’s husband Scott, 47, explained how his eldest son, James, 17, raised the alarm at 21:15 BST after he heard a loud bang and thought it was fireworks.
"The pace and ferocity at which the fire took hold and engulfed the entire car and pretty much the entire front of our house was scary beyond belief," he said.