[audunw]

Cars and energy storage systems have MUCH better BMS than your laptop. And MUCH better pack level protection from the environment. An entire parking garage with several EVs in it burned down in Norway. Not a single EV battery pack caught fire. Think about that. A firey hellscape around them and not a single ignition. What if all of them were EVs. No gasoline to contribute to the fire. It’s utterly insane that so many people think ICE cars are safer than EVs. It has no roots in basic facts. No roots in common sense. No root in easily available statistics. It’s such an obvious case of people fearing something just because it’s new and different.

[magicalhippo]

> An entire parking garage with several EVs in it burned down in Norway. Not a single EV battery pack caught fire.

Details can be found in the fire departments evaluation[1] of the fire, specifically page 28, where they note they did not find evidence of any thermal runaway in any EV.

They also note that cars with liquid fuel often have plastic fuel tanks, which can get damaged due to the heat and start leaking, spreading flammable liquid over a larger area...

[1]: https://www.rogbr.no/Rapporter%20og%20utredninger/Evaluering...