[conservatism_IS_compassion]

If you store energy you want to later harvest it. Any premature discharge (as in accidental damage) will rapidly release that energy and is likely to be with a furious result.

I personally prefer the energy storage to be heating oil, diesel fuel. Non-explosive under normal temperatures.

Not that it’s a direct comparison, but I have a battery-powered lawnmower in the garage - and, come to think of it, I keep the charger and battery in the house.

If anyone malicious got in my garage, I’d sooner they didn’t find a can of gasoline there. I’d rather they found a battery . . .

Given that Tesla doesn’t buy TV ad time - and that Musk has made Twitter into “X” - I think you can count on the MSM doing Big Auto’s dirty work by screaming to the heavens about any BEV fire anywhere in the world, let alone the USA. Gasoline fires do occur.

[George from New England]

“If anyone malicious got in my garage, I’d sooner they didn’t find a can of gasoline there. “

That’s why you put diesel there ! They won’t get much of a fire started with that.

[G Larry]

Gas fires can be extinguished.

For Lithium Battery fires the SOP is to let them burn out.