Yes, ICE vehicles are more likely to catch fire than EVs, but EV fires burn much, much hotter and are impossible to put out with water.
If you are in a hurricane prone area, then you have to quickly tow any EVs that got wet with salt water away from any structures because they will spontaneously combust. Also, good luck evacuating people from any natural disaster using EVs, since they will run out of power while stuck for hours in traffic.
If you are in an area with a lot of hills, or in the North where you need to run heat, or in the South where you need to run AC, or if you want to tow anything in your expensive new EV truck or SUV, then your range between charges will drop to nothing. EVs are unusable for people who do not live in single family homes in urban areas, who can afford their own overnight charging stations and who only use them for running around town.
If people switch from ICEs to EVs, then you can look forward to frequent brownouts, since the electric grid can barely handle current loads and no one is building any new gas, coal or nuclear plants. Contrary to popular believe, EVs are not powered by rainbows or unicorn farts.
Plus, the cost of EVs (up front and to repair) far exceeds the cost of comparable ICEs. The environmental cost of mining for the necessary rare elements for EV batteries is far greater than the cost of using fossil fuels.
Of course, the goal has never been to force people to give up their ICEs for EVs. The goal is to force most people to give up any private vehicles and ride mass transit. Then the rich liberal elite can ride around in their $100K EVs without waiting in traffic with the little people.
“If you are in an area with a lot of hills, or in the North where you need to run heat, or in the South where you need to run AC, or if you want to tow anything in your expensive new EV truck or SUV, then your range between charges will drop to nothing. “
ABSOLUTLY FALSE.
“If people switch from ICEs to EVs, then you can look forward to frequent brownouts, since the electric grid can barely handle current loads a”
That is only for some areas AND only during afternoon peaks.
Even when California had shortages recently there was excess capacity for most of the day and night.