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Originally Posted by Koflach
EV fires are going to be put under the spotlight right now as they are a relatively new technology and people are hyper sensitive to any negative news about them.
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They also seem to be a lot harder to deal with than a gas fire because of the batteries. It may just be a fluke but all the spontaneous ones I'm seeing in the news are Teslas, the fires involving other models that I've heard about are the result of accidents. Hybrids seem to have done fine over the years as well.
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Originally Posted by Koflach
Every year there are over 170,000 vehicle fires in the united states and I guarantee that 99%+ of those are ICE vehicles.
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How old are those vehicles, and when are the fires happening? ICE vehicles tend to catch fire when they're older and being driven, not nearly new and parked. If a fire starts while driving you're already paying attention to the car and can react more quickly to get away from it, if it happens in your garage in the middle of the night
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To be fair, there are 260k model Ss, and over 1.4 billion ICEs on the road. That's what, 21,538 ICEs that would have needed to start on fire in the past 2 months. Also to be fair, these are car fires occurring when the car is turned off and/or fueling. So we would need 21,538 ICEs catching on fire while turned off / fueling to be equivalent.. Just sayin', it's a pretty silly thing to throw in there as if "Well, because ICEs start on fire, these fires are ok.".
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Maybe I'm just being overly cautious because in most of the detached homes around here, the non-master bedrooms are typically above the garage (ie the kids rooms) so I'm not too jazzed about the idea of placing something potentially explosive directly beneath my kids bed.
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Originally Posted by Koflach
Take things with a grain of salt with any piece of news these days and ask some questions. How old was the car that caught on fire? Was there an issue with the charger that caused the fire? Was there any existing damage to the car that may have caused the fire while charging?
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Given the amount of tech in these things, should it not be set up to detect those kinds of issues and stop charging? Perhaps I shouldn't have assumed they had charging safety sorted out when they started spending a bunch of time with flashy stuff like the doors flapping to music.