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Posted on 04/22/2022 2:29:20 AM PDT by Libloather
It’s only mid-April, summer hasn’t arrived, and yet, electric vehicles are already on fire.
On March 28, an XPeng G3 caught on fire in Longhua District, Shenzhen, in which the entire vehicle burned down to its skeleton. On April 5, an Aiways U5 caught on fire at a charging station in Jinjiang District, Chengdu.
In the past year, the news of electric vehicles catching on fire is not uncommon. And yet, the sales of electric cars have reached a new high. BYD even announced that it would discontinue the production of fossil-fuel vehicles.
The Chinese media reported only 86 electric vehicle fire accidents in the past two years, averaging one accident per week. However, in the first quarter of this year, 640 electric vehicles caught on fire, a year-on-year increase of 32%, which is equivalent to an average of 7 electric cars caught on fire per day, according to the latest data released by the Chinese Fire and Rescue Department of the Ministry of Emergency Management on April 3 this year.
Whether it is the international giant Tesla, the domestic giant BYD, or traditional vehicle manufacturers such as GAC and BAIC, none of them escaped the burning fate.
Among the 86 reported fire accidents, BYD came in first, with the most fire accidents (11) involving the E5, E2, Tang, and Qin. Tesla had five fire accidents involving the Model 3 and Model S.
(Excerpt) Read more at carnewschina.com ...
And if you have yours plugged in your garage, your home will burn down too.
External combustion engines?
shocking...
Chinese have not twigged to the fact that you shouldn’t make electrical vehicles out of bamboo.
Well done.
And if you have yours plugged in your garage, your home will burn down too.
I’m sure the EV owner is a forward thinker therefore has a detached garage.............
Headline could have also meant sales were hot but obviously this was a more literal one.
My insurance won’t pay for a spontaneous fire totaling my car.
Has everyone checked theirs?
Also if you don’t have it plugged into your garage. Chevy Volt will explode on too high or low a charge. I think it innately wants to get back to the “internal combustion” thingy.
My insurance won’t pay for a spontaneous fire totaling my car.
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I’m surprised that I still have insurance. About a year ago they paid out $14,000 for hail damage to my car and 12,000 hail damage to my roof.
They didn’t even increase my premiums either.
No environmental impact here !
(Hahaha)
“The Chinese media reported only 86 electric vehicle fire accidents in the past two years,”
I’m sure those statistics are as accurate as their virus deaths.
/s
EV:
Exothermic Vehicle.
I think it was some wry writing. I thought it was clever.
I seem to recall the culprit being hybrids — that BEV’s (battery electric vehicle) are about as liable to catch on fire as ICE cars. But the two together in one car (hybrid) is the real danger.
None of those Chinese EVs are sold in America, so unless you live in China, not really a concern.
So are you saying that there are not EVs in the USA that catch fire?
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