Reply With QuoteNot an EV fan but all the car fires I have seen recently have been ICE, including this one in our village yesterday!
Anyone had problems?
https://www.teslarati.com/porsche-wh...he%20garage%22
Or just more anti electric from the oil companies??? Plenty of that about!
Last edited by tixntox; 13th August 2022 at 16:22.
Not an EV fan but all the car fires I have seen recently have been ICE, including this one in our village yesterday!
American but may help
https://ndakotalaw.com/do-electric-c...ered-vehicles/
What did that mess used to be?
I’d be wary of trusting any story like this that quotes only anonymous ‘sources’ and seems to be paragraph after paragraph of speculation and rumour.Originally Posted by tixntox
I’d have thought that if six out of 10 Taycan’s have a serious battery fault that could lead to fire, they’d be bursting into flames with monotonous regularity and we’d be hearing much more about it. As it is, a Google search finds many references to a single fire in Florida.
There’s no doubt that cars catch fire sometimes, whatever is powering them,
The studies that come up on Google seem to say that ICE fires per 100k vehicles are far higher than EVs, but not as high as hybrids.
I think it’s fair to summarise that EV fires are far less common but more problematic to extinguish, hence the specialist fire training being rolled out.
The problem and i think fear is that once alight they burn for days. The recovery people have containers full of water to drop the cars in so they don't reignite after being put out.
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