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And yet only one of them gets flogged in the media
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It took the firemen 45 minutes to put out my car after the full fuel tank ruptured.
An EV catching fire isn't an 'electrical fire', it's a metal fire. That's why it takes so long to put out and you just kind of try to suffocate it and let it die out.
(I didn't know/heard about it on safety meetings that the firefighters differentiate between them, but that makes sense. "Electrical fire" in the firefighter sense, which includes gasoline burning on some wires that carry current.)
Big battery safety is a very new thing tho, a bit like ice vehicles stopped being rolling fireballs after a few decades, I'm sure batteries will integrate fire safety features (ducts, chemicals, switches, or just different types of materials used to store charge).