The video shows a woman narrowly escaping getting electrocuted while charging her electric vehicle in the front yard of her house.

Surveillance camera footage showed the woman plugging in her electric car in her home in the city of Bozhou in Anhui, China, at around 6 pm on January 20.

But just seconds later she can be seen leaving the spot and running several feet away after realising that the charging point was about to burst into flames.

After the blast, she approached the vehicle in order to check the damage.

The incident raises further questions about the rise of EVs and the safety of their batteries, which rely on rare earth minerals and metals mined from the remote African countryside, leaving a devastating impact on the environment.

China, the world's biggest manufacturer of batteries for EVs, has become the main source of metals such as cobalt that Western firms including Tesla rely upon.