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It happens fairly routinely. Google "car fire in garage" for numerous examples. One particularly amusing one: https://abc7chicago.com/17-cars-catch-fire-at-newa

It happens fairly routinely. Google "car fire in garage" for numerous examples. One particularly amusing one: https://abc7chicago.com/17-cars-catch-fire-at-newark-airport-parking-garage/5114223/ https://abc7chicago.com/17-cars-catch-fire-at-newark-airport... You have a complex electrical system that gets constantly temperature cycled in a fairly extreme way, sitting right next to a bunch of flammable material. Not a big surprise that it goes wrong sometimes. I doubt it's common enough to be a real worry in either type of car, though.

slg 7y ago
>I doubt it's common enough to be a real worry in either type of car, though. People need to keep statistics in mind when looking at these issues because there are lots of people who are heavily invested in EVs failing. That first tweet in the article is a prime example. They frame a single incident of a fire with a Hyundai EV as negative news for Tesla. You can click through to that account's feed and see they tweet almost nothing but negative comments about Tesla. People like that are actively working to make sure that you see every single isolated incident when something goes wrong with an EV in hopes that it stalls that industry. And just a disclaimer to the above comment, this incident should definitely still be investigated to make sure there isn't a widespread issue. It is just a reminder that we shouldn't overreact every time a single EV has a problem because odds are we would never even hear about it if the same thing happened to an ICE vehicle.
- mikeash 7y ago
  That tweet tags $TSLAQ, which is a group of Tesla short sellers working toward the company’s failure.