"54 electric vehicle fires compared to 1,898 petrol and diesel fires"
um, so that's going on for 1 in 50 fires are EVs?
There's let's say 1.5 million EVs in the UK - roughly 60/40 EV/hybrid, with EVs increasing by maybe 50,000 a month.
https://bookmygarage.com/electric-vehicles/how-many-electric-cars-uk/There's 33 million vehicles in the UK of which 80% are petrol or diesel cars - so 26.5 million, give or take.
https://www.racfoundation.org/motoring-faqs/mobility#:~:text=In%20the%20United%20Kingdom%2C%20there,the%20end%20of%20September%202022.
So 5.6% of the cars cause 2.8% of the fires
(all numbers approx, especially EV numbers, as they're changing so quickly)
In both cases, you'd have to wonder to what extent it's the car that goes on fire, vs the human that does something to the car to set it on fire?
I wonder what proportion of EV fires were chains of 3 pin extension cables strun across pavements, and sheltered from the rain by putting the joins under a bin lid?
Will
