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by Latteland 2751 days ago
Your post exaggerates the danger from batteries. Tesla's billions of miles with fewer car fires than gas cars per mile driven is at the very least evidence that they are no more dangerous than conventional gas cars. The infamous boeing battery fire came about from poor design, and the battery wasn't used to run the engines. Tesla heats and cools their batteries and also tolerates batteries failing; boeing's design was a single large cell and did not tolerate failure, ie it was poorly designed.

Tesla has shown battery tech is a safe and reliable energy source. However, this doesn't mean there can be no problem - of course there can! Airplanes also have had many problems with catching on fire, crashing, burning in the air.