[hanche]

Electric cars don't burn more often than gas cars. And most electric car fires don't involve the high voltage battery at all, but originate in the 12 volt wiring. That said, high voltage battery fires do happen, and they are much harder to put out.

[coldtea]

>Electric cars don't burn more often than gas cars.

But when they do, even the fire department can't reliably take out the fire...

[hanche]

They can, but they need to learn the proper techniques. In a country like Norway with a high proportion of electric cars, I think all fire departments know the drill by now – even if they never had to do it themselves. Most important: Don’t stop fighting the fire the moment it’s out, or it will reignite. You need to keep cooling the battery pack a long time.