I’ve owned a lot of cars. None of them ever just caught on fire! Spontaneous combustion is not the technology I’ll be driving!
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Well, it seems to happen when not driving… 
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There were multiple house fires started from EV’s being flooded during Ian.
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Hertz rental car company is getting rid of 20,000 EVs for various reasons, 80% are Teslas. They’re switching back to gas vehicles.
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x22report.com did a segment about that recently.
It’s getting attention everywhere, especially in stock market news.
HTZ Stock Price | Hertz Global Holdings Inc. Stock Quote (U.S.: Nasdaq) | MarketWatch
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An Electric Bus Caught Fire After Battery Explosion in Paris (youtube.com)
When they go, they go…
I love writing off 62 cents a mile and costing me 6$ to charge in the driveway.
Still drive the ford transit connect for inspection day to day, but the Tesla is pretty comfy and convenient.
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Still don’t agree with people trying to force electric vehicles down our throats. The infrastructure and technology isn’t there yet.
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Exactly, burning fossil fuels one way or another. I’d rather have my car ready to go and plugged in at the house instead of having to waste time at a gas station.
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Till it burns.
Plugged in and ready to go, but you take the Transit. I spend less time in the gas station per mile than your Tesla spends plugged in.
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I agree that EVs and the battery tech that energizes them is in its infancy and that as with anything new, there will be growing pains. I compare the EVs of today to the model A of its time, but the difference being that today’s tech will advance much faster and with much more efficiency with every passing day, than that of the model A era did.
It won’t be long and SS batteries will be mass produced and IMO that will be the biggest game changer as far as EV adaption goes. Not only will they charge much faster, but they are also less prone to fires than the batteries that power the EVs being produced today.
This is just one out of many companies in the race to produce a viable SS battery.
QuantumScape’s solid-state batteries offer 500k km, no range loss (electrek.co)
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There have been 218 reported vehicles fires from teslas out of the millions sold. Hell, Hyundai/Kia had a recall a couple years back where they said don’t park the cars in the garage over night because they like to randomly catch fire.
The Tesla is plugged in and charging while I sleep. And yeah until I can fit a 32 foot extension ladder on top of the Tesla, I’ll keep utilizing the ford for work. I do take the Tesla to condos, small single family, and rental inspections from time to time.
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The disadvantages of electric vehicles and the abandonment of fossil fuels far outweighs the advantages. So lets rush headlong into an unproven and possibly unneeded technology that does not yet have the infrastructure (power grid) to support it.
That’s interesting.
Electric vehicles (EVs) can catch fire on occasion, but they are far less likely to ignite than gas cars. The fire rate of EVs is estimated to be between 25.1 and 41.25 per 100,000 vehicles sold, depending on the source. This is compared to 1,529.9 to 3,474 fires per 100,000 sales for gas cars and hybrids. Researchers need more data to determine fire rates conclusively, but preliminary studies indicate fires in fully electric cars are rare. But hey, you do you.
Waiting for Toyota’s hydrogen V-8 to come out.
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The big difference being - gasoline cars do not spontaneously ignite. Gasoline fires are the result of an accident of some sort. Battery fires in EVs can and do occur spontaneously and are much harder to extinguish.