As a part of the media myself – and thus allegedly a purveyor of fake news and a habitually horrible human – it pains me to point out that large sections of the media seem to have a disturbing obsession with electric vehicles and the idea that they are basically big, dangerous fireworks on wheels.
So do EVs catch fire so often that they should come with a side serving of marshmallows? Are they more likely to catch fire than traditional ICE vehicles (internal combustion engines)? Is this is all big, flaming fake news beat up?
Well, according to the good folks at Swinburne University who looked into this so that lazy journalists wouldn’t have to, the answer is that “electric vehicle battery fires are rare. Indeed, the available data indicate the fire risk is between 20 and 80 times greater for petrol and diesel vehicles. Fire risks are also greater for electric scooters and electric bikes.”
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Swinburne also pointed out the Australian firm called EV FireSafe that tracks passenger electric vehicle battery fires globally (EV fire safe also has a heap of great info on thermal runaway as well as how to deal with EV fires).
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