Generally, there's more car fires than you'd think. Summary off google:
"Data from the National Transportation Safety Board showed that EVs were involved in approximately 25 fires for every 100,000 sold. Comparatively, approximately 1,530 gasoline-powered vehicles and 3,475 hybrid vehicles were involved in fires for every 100,000 sold."
That's 1.5% chance of an ICE car burning down, 3.5% of a hybrid. That's even higher than I thought.
I assume this is including accidents and they probably account for the majority of fires, but ICE cars also catch fire parked sometimes. Off top of head, there was a Mercedes GLS recall and the recent Kia Telluride/Hyundai Palisade recall due to car fires in drive-ways/garages when parked.
Given that these vans use LFP batteries (which have to reach extremely high temperatures to ignite) and they were not charging when they caught on fire, I'm very curious what caused the fires. We need more info.
I’m not so concerned about the Rivian batteries as I am the HEREBUYEVERGOOD schlock brand lithium batteries that Amazon sells. I see a scenario where a bunch of them spontaneously combusted and “melted down” into the drive batteries.
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That's 1.5% chance of an ICE car burning down, 3.5% of a hybrid. That's even higher than I thought.
I assume this is including accidents and they probably account for the majority of fires, but ICE cars also catch fire parked sometimes. Off top of head, there was a Mercedes GLS recall and the recent Kia Telluride/Hyundai Palisade recall due to car fires in drive-ways/garages when parked.
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