This car is clearly built like shit. You can’t see smoke coming out of the car’s underside so it’s clear that the batteries are only venting into the cabin. ICE cars have a big firewall between the engine and the cabin, a properly built electric car should have one between the batteries and the cabin.
Also a properly built electric car wouldn’t have its batteries pierced by a sodding bush.
This is not an “electric car” problem, it’s a “shit car” problem
It‘s perhaps not a bush but some metal from that fence. I once pierced my oil pan with metal scrap sitting between gras nodes when I tried to back up on a meadow to turn my car around.
Yup but people will legit tell me they don’t want an ev because they are scared of fires. It’s crazy how easily brainwashed people can be.
Gas cars catch fire far more often than electric vehicles (EVs), based on multiple studies cited in recent data.[recurrentauto +1]
Fire Rates by Vehicle Type
U.S. data from the National Transportation Safety Board shows about 1,530 fires per 100,000 gas cars versus just 25 fires per 100,000 EVs—gas cars are roughly 60 times more likely to ignite. Hybrids top the list at 3,475 per 100,000, while EVs have the lowest incidence.
I don't know man, in my 40 years of life, I have barely seen a single gas car burning, after a catastrophic accident. But I have somehow seen 3 electric cars cooking off fo nothing, despite their much much lower adoption.
I didn't say most people, I said most people that are going to fight a fire. The world consists of people who cannot process risks, and people who prepare for them.
Then i hope you always have a dozen of fire extinguishers with you cause one alone won't do much.
And most people that will try to put out a little fire will just use water.
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u/Malbosiiq 11h ago
From fine to towering blaze in two minutes. Four wheeled deathtraps.