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I was under the impression they are all this difficult to put out.

But maybe it depends on how many cells ruptured. Hitting a tree dead center is going to take out a lot of cells I guess.

This is even worse than the deadly autopilot, EV cars are much more likely to burn and the fire is much hard to extinguish, but no one who tries to sell you an EV will tell you "hey you are more likely to die by being burned alive!"

> Wow. Have there been other electric car fires which are so difficult to put out?

(In)famously the electric super car that Richard Hammond crashed.

The Rimec One Concept car is all-electric. Hammond's model was left destroyed and took five days to fully extinguish

https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/5092851/richard-hammond-cras...

There have been many situations like this, including cars reigniting days later. Also a few cases of cars randomly catching fire while parked: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-tesla-cars-catch-on-fire...