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'Not in my backyard': EV-phobia spreads across Korea (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (6 children)

All of this anxiety surrounding EVs may come from a pervasive misconception about their increased flammability: Comprehensive data proves that EVs are less likely to burst into flames than gas-powered vehicles. EVs had 1.3 fires per 10,000 registered units in Korea as of end of last year, while internal combustion engine cars had 1.9 fires per 10,000 units, according to the latest data from the Science and Technology Policy Institute.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s fan deaths all over again.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Your comment confused me... Wikipedia has the answer:

Fan death is a misconception that people have died as a result of running an electric fan in a closed room with no open windows. While the supposed mechanics of fan death are impossible given how electric fans operate, belief in fan death persisted to the mid-2000s in South Korea,[1][2][3] and also to a lesser extent in Japan.[4][5][6]

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