The whole fast charging thing and the massive amounts of energy that is being transferred has caused me to “see” afresh the crazy amount of energy that is trans

The whole fast charging thing and the massive amounts of energy that is being transferred has caused me to “see” afresh the crazy amount of energy that is transferred when we refuel an ICE car. I can recall as a child seeing stories about stations exploding from time to time - I just did a search and saw this report that says there over 5,000 station fires a year. https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/stations.pdf https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/stations.pdf It easy to forget that refuelling is really dangerous - we just don’t think about it as it is normalised. I recall a gas station explosion being attributed to a man with a nylon jacket refueling and having a static discharge - I could not find that story but found this one with a video https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/watch-static-electricity-fire-engulfs-car-in-flames-at-israeli-gas-station-473865 https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/watch-static-electricity-fir... of fire stated by static at a pump. Here is a compilation about static caused fires at filling stations https://ehso.emory.edu/sso/documents/toolbox-training-static-electricity-and-gas-pump-fires.pdf https://ehso.emory.edu/sso/documents/toolbox-training-static... So I think that there is the potential for there to be a massive reduction in refueling fires by moving away from petroleum but as with any new form of mass behavior we are likely to find all the low probability failure modes for this new way of refueling.