Like scooters, have cities and insurance companies banned electric cars from being parked indoors?
They burn a little differently. You can dump a burning EV in the water and it will burn under water.
The chances of EV fire are drastically higher by nature than an ICE car. Especially when you are talking about parked cars.
There are people here who like to claim otherwise, and they sometimes play with the numbers to try to convince people.
Massively more difficult to put out an EV fire and the environmental damage is horrendous.
Soon enough insurance companies won’t insure EVs or accidents caused by them. That will put the stake in the heart of this blood sucking vampire.
One day, about 35 years ago, as I was walking down an empty street in my neighborhood, a car parked at the end of the block suddenly exploded into flames. No exaggeration. But, how often does that happen to a gas-powered car?
I've read in multiple places that hybrids are the worst, then gas, then BEV's (EV's based only on battery, not hybrid). That is, in terms of frequency of fires, not how hard they are to put out.
But to be honest, I'd like to look at the raw data. For example, I don't know if the gas car fires are more frequent than EV's only because there are still some decades old gas cars on the road. I'd prefer to see comparisons with same ages of cars.
Actually, gasoline-powered cars burst into flames quite often, shockingly so. There’s a government website but can’t remember the name (NTSB?), where you put in the make and model and all the reports are right there. I was doing research on a case at my office where a Nissan Kicks burst into flames and started looking at other cars bursting into flames. One report that I remember clearly was someone’s car parked in their driveway, not driven for 3 days, and the guy wakes up at night and it’s on fire. Turned out it had something to do with a tiny electrical problem with the clock. But all sorts of gas-powered cars occasionally burst into flames. I spent quite a bit of time looking around that website and was supprised to find Mercedes Benzes, Toyotas, didn’t matter how inexpensive or expensive the car was, once in a while, one will catch fire. (My car was also on there, creeped me out.)
FoMoCo vehicles built in the early to mid nineties did frequently in the early part of this century.
Leaking brake pressure switches dripping brake fluid on a wire harness connector caused fires.
Vehicle owners sent recall notices for immediate action and to not park recalled vehicles inside a structure.
Solution to fix the problem?
Move the harness connector over a few inches so brake fluid does not drip on it and tag the harness with a blue tag to note it had been moved by a FoMoCo dealer.
*The brake pressure switches still leaked brake fluid.
ICE tend to burn when starting or when repairs go wrong.
Not burst into flames in the middle of the night while parked.