Isn't this just FUD? A quick google tells me that ICE cars catch fire much more often than electric vehicles do. Although I have no idea how often container ships catch fire.
> Isn't this just FUD? A quick google tells me that ICE cars catch fire much more often than electric vehicles do. Although I have no idea how often container ships catch fire.
No, the FUD is actually the other way around - fires in ICE models are always found to be electrical faults.
The only exception I can think of is the Ford Kuga from 2019 or so; and even then, it was down to manufacturing/design defect in the turbo, not the engine itself.
Surely this is a distinction without a difference though? Nobody is driving a disembodied engine with nothing attached to it around, what matters is whether or not ICE cars have more faults.
Also, electrical systems are pretty intertwined with any modern ICE engine - you'd have to go back to crank starts to remove that.
> Surely this is a distinction without a difference though?
I don't think so - ICE cars are going to have much less wiring (that can catch fire) than electric vehicles.
IOW, if you think poor wiring in cars is a fire problem now, you can't also claim that cars with more wiring will be a smaller fire problem.
Hence I called it FUD - If cars are mostly catching fire due to electrical problems, putting more electrical components (like wiring) that carries more current (max in an ICE car is maybe 60A for starter cables, and 10A - 15A for everything else), it's pure FUD that increasing the wiring, and increasing the current carried in the electrical system will cause fewer fires.
I just don't see how adding more fire-causing components, and increasing the current is going to result in fewer fires.
the danger of EV is spontaneous fire. It needs only one faulty battery cell to short due to abuse/overcharge and lead to runaway reaction and burning of the whole thing down.
Imagine you are sleeping at your house, parked your EV in garage and it catches fire and burns your whole house down.
That's an electrical fire. ICE engines rarely spontaneously combust when parked in your garage.
In fact, I cannot think of it ever happening. The most recent thing that matches your perception was a Ford model that was know for catching fire when overheating.
Isn't this just FUD? A quick google tells me that ICE cars catch fire much more often than electric vehicles do. Although I have no idea how often container ships catch fire.