Two killed as Nio electric car crashes from third floor of a Shanghai building

Two people died this week when a Nio electric car crashed to the ground from the third floor of a parking lot in Shanghai.

One member of Nio's staff and an employee from a partner company were killed in the accident, the Chinese electric carmaker said in a statement Thursday.

Both were inside the test vehicle, which crashed on Wednesday afternoon at the Shanghai Innovation Park, Nio (NIO) said in a Weibo post. The company's headquarters is inside the industrial park.