How many fires of ice cars?
Many, its just nobody cares when a camry burns down
Hey, why did it have to be a Camry?
Cuz those goombas are gonna lose a blunt between the seats.
Excellent use of Goomba
ICE cars catch fire more often than EVs, but it is true that the fires are harder to deal with than ICE when EVs do catch fire.
This is interesting… I live in Denmark and based on 2024 numbers, there were 470.000 ev and hybrid cars in the country then. There were 50 registered fires in 2024 and 46 in 2023
That is a lot more fires in Denmark, even considering the number of cars is higher. There are approximately 3 X more Ev and Hybrid cars in Denmark but adjusting for that compared to Australia, it is still more than double the number of incidents!
Maybe they are better at reporting them?
More cars inside buildings which have other sources of fire? I suspect more in Australia are kept outside away from flammable things.
Sounds like the Denmark stats are “EVs and hybrids”? The Australian stats are only EVs. Since hybrids have both petrol and battery, counting them in this comparison is not very useful.
I don’t think the external fires category should count… probably arson as well.
That leaves 2.
Probably take teslas off that list too, since they skew the numbers too much…
Which I bet removes at least one of the remaining.
If you want to know how risky EVs are, consider how insurance companies create policies for spontaneous EV fires (they don’t).
The frequency/severity of EV fires are not large enough to justify a separate risk rating.
Let me reiterate: INSURANCE COMPANIES (who notoriously itemise obscure acts of God) do not consider it worth their time to separate this risk from any other spontaneous or unexpected catastrophe.
OTOH, if you look at shitty electric scooters bought on shady websites…
I think they’re making a huge mistake by not comparing them to ICE vehicles.
We need figures on Real, true EVs vs whatever the nazis are selling. Those things explode just for fun
Teslas are “real, true EVs”. Just because they’re sold by a nazi doesn’t change that.
No seriously. By what metric is a Tesla not a real EV?
