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Petrol cars don’t burn your house down in the middle of the night while the car is turned off. This happened several times with the Bolt EV (A car I owned) unti
by oceanplexian 3y ago
Petrol cars don’t burn your house down in the middle of the night while the car is turned off. This happened several times with the Bolt EV (A car I owned) until GM had to recall them all and eventually cancel the entire line and stop manufacturing it. These batteries are extremely dangerous and lithium fires can’t be extinguished like a gasoline fire since the reaction creates its own oxygen.
- thebruce87m 3y ago> Petrol cars don’t burn your house down in the middle of the night while the car is turned off. Yes they do: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RCLRPT-22V346-3365.PDF https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RCLRPT-22V346-3365.PDF > Risk of underhood fire, including while the vehicle is parked and off.
- neilalexander 3y agoData from the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency recently found that ICE cars could be up to 20 times more likely to catch fire. https://www.msb.se/sv/aktuellt/nyheter/2023/maj/brander-i-eltransportmedel-under-2022/?ref=warpnews.org https://www.msb.se/sv/aktuellt/nyheter/2023/maj/brander-i-el... It also wasn't that long ago that a diesel car that was parked and switched off spontaneously caught fire and wrote off an entire multi-storey car park at Luton Airport, so there's an anecdote for all. That's not to say that problems with the Bolt weren't serious but they are not representative of the EV market as a whole.