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Environment & Energy

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6. Because for most people, they don't realize the hybrids and Internal Combustion vehicles burn up daily.

Reply to RipVanWinkle (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 28, 2024, 07:06 PM

Aug 2024

Just as you pointed out, ICE vehicles account for almost all vehicular fires, but they're getting safer.

In 1980, there were almost half a million of them that burned, that's more than 1,250 per day in the U.S. alone.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/377006/nmber-of-us-highway-vehicle-fires/

In 2021, it's now down to under 180,000 burned vehicles per year, of which Teslas account for about 200. So when a Tesla burns, it makes news, just like you said, because it's so unusual that this happens to Tesla EVs.