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Originally Posted by techwhiz1
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.
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Hidden in the stats of 200m vs. 19m miles is the relevant stats of how many of those fires are results of a collision(that the battery protection and enclosure are used to protect against). Is there a link to such data?