I’m guessing these were German EVs that caught fire. No need to send Teslas from Europe to the US. And the Chinese/Korean/Japanese ones would take a shorter route.
We’ve all seen the videos of burning Teslas. But there are a lot of Teslas compared to other EVs at least for now. We’ve seen Fords and Chevy’s buring at the factory charging station. So it’s only a matter of time before we start seeing BMWs and Mercedes Benz and Porsches and VWs alight.
So maybe the song was Janis Joplin “Oh Lord Won’t You Buy Me a Mercedes Benz...”
More like oh Lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Burns.
This chance of EVs going up in smoke is going to raise the insurance rates. What a punch in the gut these EV owners are going to get, down the road, when the chickens come home to roost.