> Most of them start with small electrical fires that propagate and after a looooong time finally get to the gas, nothing will explode https://en.m.wikipedia.o

> Most of them start with small electrical fires that propagate and after a looooong time finally get to the gas, nothing will explode https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdraft https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdraft You just need a fire in an enclosed space running for a bit of time. > can't you tell the difference between a phone battery and a car battery ? really ? I have seen the result of a house fire due to bad laptop battery. Once a fire starts it's typically bad. If you are worried about EVs catching fire, then any battery has the same risk percentage to start a fire. (defective samsung mobile phones is a good example of an issue and it being resolved) Sure, it's much worse and much faster for an EV to catch fire. Still, a regular battery can kill you just as well. I just leave my EV outside, I don't think it will catch fire, but if it does it won't kill me. I also used to leave my gas car outside, I dont think that would catch fire either. I havent seen too many regular consumer devices starting fires so that risk might be low.