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Originally Posted by TrevorW
Lets extrapolate that out a bit - I read 6 EV's fires to date, now considering there is only 180000 EV's in Australia against 19000000 ICE vehicles, that ratio of fires EV's to ICE would be parity  |
For mine, it's not even how many.....there is one undisputed fact....
When they do go off, they are orders of magnitude more nasty....
-Battery fires cannot be extinguished with an ordinary fire hose....water only makes them burn more.
-the toxic chemicals they spew out are extremely corrosive and carcinogenic.
The likelihood of them burning may be less, or at parity, but the impact of any one fire is waaaaaaaay worse.
This alone would not stop me buying one, but makes me consider getting a house with a detached garage at the very least, and avoiding underground car parks...