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> Compare that to 45k ICE vehicles fires every year and it appears that EVs are significantly less likely to catch fire. You haven't provided enough informatio
by Cpoll 4y ago
> Compare that to 45k ICE vehicles fires every year and it appears that EVs are significantly less likely to catch fire.
You haven't provided enough information to make a comparison.
Googling some numbers, Tesla has sold 2MM cars, so taking that 97 number we get 0.00004 fires per Tesla.
US has 275MM cars, and (2022 - 2012) * 45000 = 450000, so we have 0.00163 fires per ICE car.
Conclusion: If those numbers are correct, Teslas are two orders of magnitude less likely to catch fire.
- mrguyorama 4y agoI bet if you control for vehicle age and economic status, EVs combust at the same rate as gasoline vehicles
- GiorgioG 4y ago"In 2017, 70% of the cars to catch fire were more than 10 years old." https://housegrail.com/car-fire-statistics/#1_There_were_212500_vehicle_fires_in_2018 https://housegrail.com/car-fire-statistics/#1_There_were_212...
- gunapologist99 4y agoEven if that's true (and your numbers do look to be similar to what I've seen), it's not relevant, because when a Tesla catches fire, it utterly immolates itself and everything around it. That is certainly not true for a gasoline fire once the fire engines roll up, to say nothing of a diesel fire, which are comparatively hard to start and easy to extinguish. It'd be far more informative to compare injuries and damages.