[rbliss]

The spat of news stories about electric car fires tends to be news sensationalism rather than the reality of residential fires.

By far, residential fires are started by cooking, home heating, malfunctioning electric wiring or lighting. Stuff you’ve already been living with for a long time!

Best thing to do is make sure your smoke alarms are working, regularly tested, and have an evacuation plan, practiced with your family.

See: https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Publications-and-medi...

[giardini]

Problem with EV car fires is putting them out!

Once auto and home insurance companies figure out the risks involved, they'll raise auto and home insurance prices accordingly. We'll see:

- EV fire in a condo - destroys entire condo building. Requires 4 hours of fire department coverage.

- ICE fire in a condo - partially burns a single unit. Put out in 20 minutes by fire department.

[timbit42]

"destroys entire condo building". Doubt.