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Originally Posted by bavarianride
I haven't seen any stats of, say, Tesla vs. other premium brand's ICEs, and it is possible the orders of magnitude LESS EV vs. ICE is due to ICE fires from neglected maintenance/repair, while Tesla EV fires were on relatively new cars with zero known issues.
And we do know many other premium brands take proactive steps on battery protection/enclosure that Tesla lacks.
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In general ICE are more likely to catch fire.
BMW recalled more than a million E90/E80 cars for the possibility of electrical fire.
There was a study and even it if it was off by even a large degree EV's catch fire an order of magnitude less often. ~200 million miles driven for EV and 19 million miles for ICE.
The problem is that the typical ICE auto fire can be put out pretty easy and lasts about 30 minutes or so. An EV can burn for hours and take thousands of gallons of water just to keep it under control.
In general car fires are pretty rare.