>Having a compartment full of leaky flammable fluids and hot exhaust components might tend to do that on occasion. Indeed, but you also get animal related fire

>Having a compartment full of leaky flammable fluids and hot exhaust components might tend to do that on occasion. Indeed, but you also get animal related fires (I have no clue as to what percentage) as birds, mice, chipmunks etc will build nests in vehicles. I imagine the animal related fires are pretty low and in the case of an EV would be next to non-existent for nest-related fires, I wonder though if EVs though are more at risk of electrical fire from pets chewing on wires. Trying to find any sort of statistics I stumbled upon a wildfire site that documents animal-started fires, the most recent one gave me a bit of a chuckle so I'm including it here: "Bear falls on Sheriff’s vehicle causing crash and fire" https://wildfiretoday.com/2019/08/09/bear-falls-on-sheriffs-vehicle-causing-crash-and-fire/ https://wildfiretoday.com/2019/08/09/bear-falls-on-sheriffs-... There's also the infrastructure damage caused by animals that is documented at https://cybersquirrel1.com/ https://cybersquirrel1.com/