[V_TWIN]

Nobody seems to want to talk about this being an EV or not.

[Jeff Chandler]

Sales are on fire for that hot new BMW.

[Red Badger]

That’ll buff right out!.................

[PGR88]

Its like transgender violence

We can’t talk about it because it head-on conflicts what the Left is promoting

[johniegrad]

What am I missing? It took a month to remove the vehicle from the ramp? Was it because of damage to the structure or what?

[BobL]

They really need to STOP allowing EVs into confined volumes, or there will be a mass killing by one of them.

[ConservativeMind]

I love how a single electric car can cause so much damage. It is such a huge bang for the buck that we should consider using them in offensive warfare.

Imagine every multi-level parking lot in a country have this happen at once. The destruction would be amazing.

[BobL]

“Nobody seems to want to talk about this being an EV or not.”

Given the muffler and exhaust pipe visible in the picture, this one is clearly gasoline (and not hybrid, due to the size of the exhaust hardware)...but did it really start the fire?

[Mark17]

Nobody seems to want to talk about this being an EV or not.

That’s the first thing I wondered about.

[Larry Lucido]

Most of that damage will buff right out.

[catnipman]

since they refuse to name the model of BMW that caught fire, you can be pretty sure it was an EV ... it’s like when the propaganda media just say “yutes” or “teens” we know EXACTLY what they really mean ...

[Magnum44]

I see an exhaust pipe, so it wasnt a pure EV. Possibly still a hybrid?

[alternatives?]

Can you imagine if the cause is someone replaced a fuel line and didn’t tighten it enough and/or used a non-oem fuel line? Who has the liability? Most people don’t carry auto liability coverage above $1 million.

[Dr. Sivana]

Nobody seems to want to talk about this being an EV or not.

The article claims that the car in the picture is the BMW in question. That car has a tailpipe.

[Carriage Hill]

Exhaust pipe and muffler shows it an ICE unit, one of the collateral victims of the BMW.

[Drawsing]

Copied and pasted from Google’s AI overview - so take it for what it’s worth:

Frequency:

ICE vehicles: Experience fires at a higher rate, with approximately 1,530 fires per 100,000 vehicles sold.

EVs: Experience fires at a much lower rate, with around 25 fires per 100,000 vehicles sold.

Hybrids: Have a higher fire incident rate than both EVs and ICE vehicles.

The article did talk about how EV fires are harder to extinguish.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Has anyone considered that China might have a covert way of igniting these batteries?

Anyone is vaguely familiar with “The Art of War” would say that it is probably a requirement to be licensed by the CCP to manufacture EV batteries to have a back door to thermal overload.

“Leave the World Behind” on Netflix which Obama co-produced contains a warning about something similar.

[mewzilla]

Could have been a hybrid.

Last stats I saw had hybrids going en fuego at almost twice the rate of EVs...

[mewzilla]

Oh, boy. Note that hybrids are included...

https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric-responders

[LouAvul]

That headline sux

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

I was at the airport yesterday as they were bringing that car out. The front was completely destroyed.

(In before the ‘that’ll buff right out,’ btw)