• SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    It’s a funny meme that EVs explode, but if you look at the statistics for the USA it goes (from most fires to less): ICE cars, hybrids, then EVs.

    In 2020:

    1. Internal Combustion fires: 199,533
    2. Hybrid (Partially Electric) fires: 16,051
    3. Battery Electric: 52

    idk what the 2023 stats are but it’s probably similar

    • Sinistar [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      Are these proportional to number of registered cars, number of miles driven, or just absolute numbers? I’ve had a hard time finding actually useful data in the past when I’ve tried to look it up.

    • Tomboys_are_Cute [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      Its not really a funny meme, EV car fires are impossible to firefight. As soon as it starts the car is toast, that shit is going to burn and its going to burn hotter than any ICE fire. Its a class D fire so the only real way to extinguish it is smothering with dry powder (sand) and creating a glass vacuum around it which is fine for a bike battery but impractical for car.