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

[Read_Lives_of_Saints]

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.

 

[LaAguilaNegra]

Didn't know Volvo was now owned by a Chinese company, Geely. Immediately started having problems with Chinese made lithium batteries as well. Fortunately European safety standards and imposition thereof are above the Chinese hence the Volvo EVs were recalled over safety risks. Either way sad to see, Volvo used to be a pinnacle of trustworthiness.

 

[Thomas More]

Didn't know Volvo was now owned by a Chinese company, Geely. Immediately started having problems with Chinese made lithium batteries as well. Fortunately European safety standards and imposition thereof are above the Chinese hence the Volvo EVs were recalled over safety risks. Either way sad to see, Volvo used to be a pinnacle of trustworthiness.



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I know a guy who has one of these. I'll ask him about this tomorrow.

 

[Cooper]

I rode on a 2024 Volvo model Uber last year, and lived to tell the story... I don't remember the model number but it was a very nice interior and ride, the driver who was Indian was very pleased with his car and said the new models were significantly better in terms of specs and battery range. That was the only time I have been inside a Chinese EV.