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The odds of an EV catching fire are lower than for a gasoline vehicle. And safer, less-flammable kinds of battery are in development. Less-flammable kinds of g

The odds of an EV catching fire are lower than for a gasoline vehicle. And safer, less-flammable kinds of battery are in development. Less-flammable kinds of gasoline are not.

enquirewithin 2mo ago
Is that an aged adjusted statistic? Or is it comparing with the entire gasoline vehicle fleet?
- SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
  Why ask things that you can easily look up?
  - mikestew 2mo ago
    Sea lions don't merely "look things up", they ask you to do it for them.
  - enquirewithin 2mo ago
    Oh, sorry, I thought we were having a conversation. My mistake.
    - SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
      "A civil conversation about my statement" quite. I'm not buying it and you shouldn't be selling it.
    - smcin 2mo ago
      This is all very off-topic to the original discussion about reduction in air pollution.
- mrguyorama 2mo ago
  Consider that every single human being on the planet carries around a lithium battery in their pocket, at a large percentage of those batteries have experienced such damage that would destroy the glass screen on those devices, and yet people are not bursting into flames regularly, and even the defective batteries that Samsung distributed for a while only made events extremely rare. Lithium batteries are pretty safe in practice.
  - enquirewithin 2mo ago
    Safe enough to not be allowed on air freight. Safe enough to not be allowed in checked baggage on commercial passenger aircraft. Safe enough to kill e-bike riders, safe enough to kill people at home charging their e-bike / e-scooter / electric car. Perfectly safe. No trade offs, just safety.
    - DeRock 2mo ago
      All of those apply to gasoline
    - SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
      I want you to travel with half a gallon of gasoline (i.e. 2 litres of petrol) in your hold and/or hand luggage. See how that goes for you. And yet, people travel with one or often more than one battery devices as a matter of utterly unremarkable routine.

The odds of an EV catching fire are lower than for a gasoline vehicle. And safer, less-flammable kinds of battery are in development. Less-flammable kinds of gasoline are not.

enquirewithin 2mo ago

Is that an aged adjusted statistic? Or is it comparing with the entire gasoline vehicle fleet?

SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
Why ask things that you can easily look up?
- mikestew 2mo ago
  Sea lions don't merely "look things up", they ask you to do it for them.
- enquirewithin 2mo ago
  Oh, sorry, I thought we were having a conversation. My mistake.
  - SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
    "A civil conversation about my statement" quite. I'm not buying it and you shouldn't be selling it.
  - smcin 2mo ago
    This is all very off-topic to the original discussion about reduction in air pollution.
mrguyorama 2mo ago
Consider that every single human being on the planet carries around a lithium battery in their pocket, at a large percentage of those batteries have experienced such damage that would destroy the glass screen on those devices, and yet people are not bursting into flames regularly, and even the defective batteries that Samsung distributed for a while only made events extremely rare. Lithium batteries are pretty safe in practice.
- enquirewithin 2mo ago
  Safe enough to not be allowed on air freight. Safe enough to not be allowed in checked baggage on commercial passenger aircraft. Safe enough to kill e-bike riders, safe enough to kill people at home charging their e-bike / e-scooter / electric car. Perfectly safe. No trade offs, just safety.
  - DeRock 2mo ago
    All of those apply to gasoline
  - SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
    I want you to travel with half a gallon of gasoline (i.e. 2 litres of petrol) in your hold and/or hand luggage. See how that goes for you. And yet, people travel with one or often more than one battery devices as a matter of utterly unremarkable routine.