Consider me intrigued, Mr. Musk
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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.
With Trump, we could buy our own gasoline. Got a problem with that? With EVs we get to buy horribly expensive batteries from China, and they send you kisses with them.
Lol. We can make our gas here, but we can't make our own batteries here?
OPEC sends it regards. I'm sure they will follow it with your check.
We don't have large developed lithium deposits. But what do you have against domestic petroleum production? We were a net exporter under Trump.