The statistic I've seen is 1.5% for ICE and 0.025% for electric per vehicle sold. Some of that will undoubtedly be due to the relative age of the two fleets, but there's a big problem with your data if you're looking at vehicles that burn 60 times less often and think they're burning more.
How much effort and resources does it take to put out an electric car that's on fire? How is that going to look when they try to force everyone to have electric with their "zero emissions" bullshit? You're not only ignoring that electric cars are far newer, but that they also burn far more severely. Would they have had to abandon ship if an ICE vehicle had somehow spontaneously burst into flames instead?
It'd be overall vehicle burn rate, including accidents and malfunctions, which seems fair since I doubt you'd give an electric vehicle fire a pass just because it had been in a crash.
It actually seems like a reasonable number. Just some napkin math, ~290 million vehicles in the US / average vehicle life of 20 years * 1.5% burn rate = ~217,500 vehicle fires per year which is very close to the actual number.
I have personally seen several vehicle fires, including an unattended car in a parking lot. I don't even drive that much. I don't know why you'd assume that pumping flammable liquid around at high pressure wouldn't result in a fire from time to time.
The statistic I've seen is 1.5% for ICE and 0.025% for electric per vehicle sold. Some of that will undoubtedly be due to the relative age of the two fleets, but there's a big problem with your data if you're looking at vehicles that burn 60 times less often and think they're burning more.
How much effort and resources does it take to put out an electric car that's on fire? How is that going to look when they try to force everyone to have electric with their "zero emissions" bullshit? You're not only ignoring that electric cars are far newer, but that they also burn far more severely. Would they have had to abandon ship if an ICE vehicle had somehow spontaneously burst into flames instead?
Idiot.
1.5% means what? That 1.5% of ICE vehicles spontaneously combust? Is that the number you really want to go with?
It'd be overall vehicle burn rate, including accidents and malfunctions, which seems fair since I doubt you'd give an electric vehicle fire a pass just because it had been in a crash.
It actually seems like a reasonable number. Just some napkin math, ~290 million vehicles in the US / average vehicle life of 20 years * 1.5% burn rate = ~217,500 vehicle fires per year which is very close to the actual number.
I have personally seen several vehicle fires, including an unattended car in a parking lot. I don't even drive that much. I don't know why you'd assume that pumping flammable liquid around at high pressure wouldn't result in a fire from time to time.