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by Lio 23 days ago
You can't remember it because it's so common it doesn't raise any media interest:

ICE vehicles: ~174,000–200,000 fires/year (1,500–1,530 per 100,000 sold).

EVs: ~25 fires per 100,000 sold (hundreds per year total).

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Is this referring to recalls related to defective vehicles? Also, EVs are on average much newer than ICE vehicles. I would assume that most ICE vehicles that spontaneously combust are not newer ones.