No EV relies on tanker trucks and pipelines. Got that?
I thought they are safer.
ICE cars catch fire every day.Now I’m curious…
Okay. After some AI assisted recearch. In most ways, EVs and ICEVs make no real difference in accidents, when controlled for vehicle age. Which makes perfect sense, since they’re the same in all the ways that matter here. However fire rates are dramatically lower for EVs. Like 1/60th as frequent. Though EV fires are much worse. They burn hotter and are extremely difficult to put out. But EV fires are so rare that fire related fatality data is too small to be statistically meaningful. So that’s good.
This makes me wonder because I know I saw things previously about combining technology where a batter would have both sodium and lithium batteries. Mostly lithium for the power but enough sodium for cold starts and they were stacked between each other so I kinda wonder if it would reduce the intensity of fires. It was like a grid of laternating battery type nodes.
I think it’s Tesla’s that popularised the thought of fire being worse because it’s them that primarily seem to catch fire and also seem to lock their passengers in to die, something every other car likely allows - ICE or EV - because other manufacturers know how to make door locks.
Seriously. Tesla’s are so shit.
That’s just because there are more of them, and people read headlines with Tesla mentioned. There is a bias…
IHS Markit data shows that EVs, back to the Nissan Leaf in 2011, accounted for 1.9% of the 291 million vehicles on the road across the U.S. at the end of 2025. Of those, 43.9% of EVs on the road were Tesla. The second closest manufacturer was Chevrolet at 7.6% and Ford rounding out the top 3 with 7% market share.
On a similar note… Remember the negativity about the Chevy Bolt when they were spontaneously combusting? When parking garages were banning them? When Chevy recommended you park 150+ feet away from your home for safety?
Or all the hubbub about the Samsung Note 7 battery recall? Where it was an insanely small number of manufactured devices, and by the end all like 30 of them had exploded already?
People are dogshit at understanding statistics, especially at scale, and the media has no incentive for actually educating.
They already are safer.
