| I think the article is grossly misrepresenting the dangers from lithium battery fires
in other places than cars.
Especially about escooters and bikes as well as air travel. There is statistically one fire a week on passenger aircrafts in the US now. ⁽¹⁾⁽² ⁾
New York City is trying to deal with a large number of fires started by ebikes og escooters. ⁽³⁾⁽⁴⁾ To dismiss this problem by finding a fire that happened in Vietnam that was incorrectly attributed seems quite biased. When it comes to the stats for cars, they are probably correct but somewhat misguided.
Most electric cars are pretty new, a large percentage are nearly brand news. To compare them to the entire fleet of fossile fueled car fires is a bit unfair.
I think if you compare all new and brand new combustion engine fires the stats
would look different. May well be much higher for combustion engines, I dont know, but the comparisons
used in the article are in my opinion biased. ¹ https://explore.dot.gov/t/FAA/views/LithiumBatteries/Inciden... ² https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2023/03/03...
³ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/nyregion/e-bike-lithium-b...
⁴ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/22/ebike-batter... |