Electric Vehicles Thread (Bikes, Cars, Trucks, etc.)

You're probably better off sticking with stories of muh million Muslim holocaust in the Xinjiang illustrated with the same picture from 10 years ago.

Google answer for "rate of car explosions evs vs ice"
Studies spanning 2010–2020 saw EV battery fire rates at 0.0012%, compared to 0.1% for internal combustion engine (ICE) cars. In Poland, EVs and ICE vehicles had equal incident rates—approximately 0.23 fires per 1,000 registered vehicles.
How about rates of injury? Stats? Opinions?

I've seen probably 10 passenger car fires in the wild in my life and in all of them people exited quickly and were uninjured.

The vids of EV fires I've seen look a lot worse and give me the impression that the risk of injury is higher because of a much faster combustion rate that quickly leads to a catastrophic explosive fire that invades the passenger compartment, whereas ICE fires are usually contained in the engine bay and take longer to spread, and some of mine have not eventually engulfed the car, whereas the big battery fires look worse.
 
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