ICE vs EV fires
LOL. I'm sure a Condo Association and Underground parking structure owner know more than a study that was sourced from data from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), and government recall data from Recalls.gov from the links in prior posts.
ICE's and hybrids have batteries that catch on fire too... just saying. The latest recall:
VW Group to recall more than 100,000 plug-in hybrids on fire risk
If you're worried about battery fires, don't buy a car lol.
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It's funny...after the Tesla fire in my town last year, my neighbor was going on and on about how "they" warn that you should not charge an EV inside your garage ever. But when I said "Show me" he could not produce a single source of this whatsoever; he's going to pages 2, 3, 4, 5 of his Google search and coming up empty. Meanwhile, the Tesla website literally shows a car being charged in a garage. How would the Tesla lawyers feel about that if there was any shred of truth that it's so risky to charge an EV? Would any parking garage ever install a charger? Would any parking lot with chargers ever put them in close proximity to any other vehicle if this was REALLY a risk? No - not in a society that has to put a warning on a cup of coffee that it's hot.
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Both EV and ICE can catch fire. Both are extremely unlikely so this isn't a reason not to buy an EV. It's a stupid reason not to buy an EV. There are much better reasons like charging situation, range concerns, towing and initial cost. I can completely understand someone using one of those reasons or a host of other reasons why they won't buy an EV. Catching fire shouldn't be one of them.
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Both EV and ICE can catch fire. Both are extremely unlikely so this isn't a reason not to buy an EV. It's a stupid reason not to buy an EV. There are much better reasons like charging situation, range concerns, towing and initial cost. I can completely understand someone using one of those reasons or a host of other reasons why they won't buy an EV. Catching fire shouldn't be one of them.
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. Probably better to have them where you can actually just dump one in the ocean if it ever catches fire. What a disaster.
LOL, some sort of EV flush mechanism.
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My wife loves the smell of gasoline lol
Its just reactionary BS. In one of those articles they literally said there are 132 gas vehicle fires EVERY DAY in the US lol
LOL. I'm sure a Condo Association and Underground parking structure owner know more than a study that was sourced from data from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), and government recall data from Recalls.gov from the links in prior posts.
