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last i checked electric vehicles also use the same braking mechanisms and could catch fire for the same reasons : https://www.consumerreports.org/car-recalls-defects/hyundai-... , please post an actual link to a known case of an ICE vehicle spontaneously combusting while being turned off due to some component of the gas/gas system being the main cause of the combustion.

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Oil leaking on to an exhaust manifold count?

https://money.cnn.com/2015/10/27/autos/gm-recall-fire/

As someone else mentioned, I wasn't trying to argue either car catches fire more or less. The parent was suggesting ICE cars catching fire while parked practically never happens, when millions of ICE cars in the last few years have been recalled for such things. Lots of people have had their houses burn down from ICE cars being parked inside. A parked car catching fire isn't something new to battery vehicles.

yes, thanks for pointing that out!

That's not really the argument, though. The argument is that all types of cars catch fire. It is not that ICE cars catch fire more.

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