Do Teslas catch on fire more often than internal combustion engine cars?

[freeradical]

https://www.thedrive.com/news/28420/park...l-in-sight

[cbelt3]

8/500,000 in 1 year. (article)
171,500 vehicle files per year in the US from 2014 to 2016. Out of 260M vehicles (Many of which are not operated). (FEMA Stats, Statistica stats)
... Math....

Ergo... Teslas are over 40 times less likely to catch fire than any other vehicle on the road.

[timg]

Ah, but Tesla fires are way more spectacular. Nothing like burning lithium ...

[Grateful11]

They're way more newsworthy is the problem.

[hal]

cbelt3 wrote:
8/500,000 in 1 year. (article)
171,500 vehicle files per year in the US from 2014 to 2016. Out of 260M vehicles (Many of which are not operated). (FEMA Stats, Statistica stats)
... Math....

Ergo... Teslas are over 40 times less likely to catch fire than any other vehicle on the road.

How old is 'any other vehicle on the road'? This is comparing a group of very new cars to a group of cars of ALL ages. It would be a better comparison to ask how many combustion engines built in the last 3 years have burned.

[cbelt3]

timg wrote:
Ah, but Tesla fires are way more spectacular. Nothing like burning lithium ...

PINTO !


And, the fires don't spread like a gasoline fueled fire. Burning IC vehicles present a nice puddle of combustion that spreads around. Batteries just torch up and burn out. You can even hose them down with water to slow down runaway failure of neighboring battery packs.+

Tesla has good instructions. Every owner should be familiar with them. I like the "Firefighter loop" to cut the high voltage. Good thinking.
https://www.tesla.com/firstresponders

[davester]

hal wrote:
How old is 'any other vehicle on the road'? This is comparing a group of very new cars to a group of cars of ALL ages. It would be a better comparison to ask how many combustion engines built in the last 3 years have burned.

Why do you say this? The Tesla Model S was introduced 7 years ago.

[pRICE cUBE]

The fires look interesting https://jalopnik.com/tesla-battery-cells...1788573241

[Ken Sp.]

Since Tesla (TSLA) is one of the most shorted stocks on Wall Street-The short sellers make sure that there is lot's of fake news against Tesla. Yes, Elon, and Tesla "shoot themselves in the foot" plenty of times on their own.
EV's in general are 10 times less likely to catch fire, and when they do---it is much less dramatic. Gasoline is designed to burn and explode.

[timg]

pRICE cUBE wrote:
The fires look interesting https://jalopnik.com/tesla-battery-cells...1788573241

You know they use lithium in fireworks, right?