EV Fire Risks Debate

"gasoline is very hazardous"Battery fires aren't?

Gas cars catch fire out of the blue on occasion as well, In fact there were 152,000 car fires per year in the period 2006-2010. Only 4% of those were collision-related[1].Not saying this shouldn’t be investigated, but nobody was injured, and this now makes ONE non-crash Tesla battery fire that I’m aware of.[1] https://www.nfpa.org/Public-

Citation needed. Last I checked EVs are much less likely to catch fire than ICEs. (They are, however, much harder to put out if they do.)

Petrol cars don’t burn your house down in the middle of the night while the car is turned off. This happened several times with the Bolt EV (A car I owned) until GM had to recall them all and eventually cancel the entire line and stop manufacturing it. These batteries are extremely dangerous and lithium fires can’t be extinguished like a gasoline fire since the reaction creates its own oxygen.

The batteries do not tend to spontaneously combust. In vehicles there is much greater danger of physical damage causing a fire, and even there the incidence rate is a fraction of ICE fires. In a proper housing in a commercial/residential installation the risk should be far less than, say, having a car in your garage.

Gas cars are 11x more likely to catch fire than an EV.

Believe it's the battery short and discharge that starts the heat and fire. And to prevent damaging the batteries they ship them 50% chargedNewer electric cars are LiFePo and don't catch fire and are less dangerous

Even though it might not seem like it because reporting on burning cars is very selective, EVs do catch fire a lot less than gar powered cars - even when adjusted for how many there are on the road. Additinally, many new EVs use cheaper LFP batteries now that are almost impossible catch on fire.

Yes, but the Model S's on the road are less than a couple of years old. How many gasoline fires are caused by cars that are a couple of years old? I would guess this comparison would put the gasoline fires more in line with Tesla car rates. I would assume that most of the gasoline engines that catch fire are from older cars which haven't been maintained well.

do you have any evidence that they're more prone to fire than any other EVs?