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Originally Posted by cdrptrks
Here's an article about it from 2022. It seems that there's a chance it could happen after an EV is flooded but a fire is not guaranteed.
https://www.autoblog.com/news/floode...-hurricane-ian
According to the article: "There are fewer EV fires per 100,000 vehicles than there are for gas or hybrid cars." |
Good article. Car crashes cause most gas car fires. Maintenance could prevent a lot of car fires not caused by an accident.
EVs will catch up though in the numbers. And not all gas car fires are as intense of a total loss like EV fires, which don't tend to stay small or can be extinguished in a timely manner to limit damage.
As EV numbers increase (and age) so will the percentage per 100k cars that catch fire, and the intensity and likelihood of a total loss and surrounding exposures will increase as well.