It’s not as though ICE vehicles haven’t been known to spontaneously combust while parked. Didn’t Ford have a whole bunch of pickups or something that were prone to that.
And yes, while a 100 KWh battery certainly contains a lot of energy and will burn very hot, 20 gallons of gasoline also contains a lot of energy, burns hot, and is not that easy to extinguish.
My issue with electric cars is not the technology itself, but the silly lies and half-truths used to promote them, from a practical and environmental point of view.
Defective ignition switches. Not just pickups but across the lineup.......................
The problem is that people are looking to put a bank of batteries in their homes to store the solar energy from their solar panels.
God help us if one of the homes with a bank of these batteries light off. If it can happen with a cell phone battery then it can happen with a bank of batteries holding 1000x the energy.