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Ok how many ice vehicles are repaired after fires? Car fires are terrible and they happen much much more frequently with ICE than with EVs.
Per 100k cars, 1529 ICE cars burn Per 100k cars, 25 EVs burn.
We agree that car fires are dangerous, I would want to own one that has way less chance of catching fire.
Ordinary car fires are nowhere so spectacular as to get much press coverage. There is seldom any such thing as a "small" EV fire. You seem to think it is better to run a lower risk of actual fire, but a much higher risk of that fire being catastrophic. And it can't be extinguished. Once it starts, you are in for the whole ride. Bad luck for you if you are inside and the default system status is to lock the doors before the computer quits. It's a likelihood vs. severity tradeoff.
If a car catches on fire, it's done. Total loss in 90% of all fires. It's severity AND likelihood.
"Each year, from 2014 to 2016, an estimated 171,500 highway vehicle fires occurred in the United States, resulting in an annual average of 345 deaths; 1,300 injuries; and $1.1 billion in property loss."
1 person has died in a Tesla fire.
Do you work for BP or what?
No, I just view videos of Teslas turning into incendiary weapons that can't be stopped. I notice you are ducking the problem of not being able to extinguish a lithium fire, or how serious such a fire is. Conventional fires can be put out. (Lithium is the only fire fuel that can burn with conventional extinguishing agents. Halogenated hydrocarbons are as good as oxygen.)
Of course there are about 79 times more conventional cars in the U.S than Teslas and the passenger load-out may differ. So, your numbers aren't so dramatically different when compared statistically. There are 182 confirmed cases of Tesla fires against 3.6 million produced, so they happen. (That's about 1 fire per 20,000 vehicles. The airliner industry works to a standard of no greater than a 1 in 10 million probability of catastrophic flight failure.)
I think your assessment is based on the principle that "it doesn't matter how serious the fire is; a fire is just a fire." If you believe that, more power to you.
I listed the numbers as a per 100k ratio. EVs catch on fire at a drastically reduced rate.
Lithium fires are bad. 345 people a year die in car fires. 1 person ever has died in a lithium battery fire.
Keep your ICE car grandpa. Saudi Arabia sends it's love.