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There are 4 orders of magnitude between 14 and 171,000. I could be wrong, but I don't think those adjustments will cross that divide.
by dwaltrip 7y ago
There are 4 orders of magnitude between 14 and 171,000. I could be wrong, but I don't think those adjustments will cross that divide.
- zimpenfish 7y agoFrom https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/VehicleSafetyReport https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/VehicleSafetyReport "From 2012 – 2018, there has been approximately one Tesla vehicle fire for every 170 million miles traveled. By comparison, data from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and U.S. Department of Transportation shows that in the United States there is a vehicle fire for every 19 million miles traveled." (No indication whether the NFPA/DOT numbers include the Tesla fires, though, or how many of those are arson - in the UK, arson accounts for about 65% of vehicle fires which you can't really blame on the ICE. If the US is the same, that'd increase the 19M miles to ~54M miles per fire - still looks good for Tesla tho', especially when you consider that the ICE has 100 years of safety development compared to, what, 10 for the Teslas?)
- dwaltrip 7y agoThanks for digging that up and sharing. Looks like Tesla's are safer than your average ICE when it comes to vehicle fires, but not by multiple orders of magnitude. Although, as you say, that gap may widen as they have more years to invest in safety.