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This is going to be a problem with electric cars of all makes due to the volatility (and the ferocity of the fire) of high-capacity batteries. We're going to have to re-think how we design garages.

"GM Tells Bolt Owners to Park 50 Feet Away From Other Cars" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-15/gm-tells-...

This seems like BS unless you just an extreme outlier among extreme. Tesla Quality problems were never with their battery or impact safety. In fact the rank best in class in pretty much ever safety rating in pretty much every country.

I have been following Tesla for a long time and every single 'Tesla catches on fire for no reason' story turned out to be non-sense.

A Tesla catching on fire 'spontaneously' would have made some news and 3 would for sure. Please show sources where and when this happened.

And there are plenty of incidents where parked gas cars catch fire, there have been recalls about that.

Nope. Not BS. Sorry, you don't like it, but it is true. More Tesla's have caught fire than any other brand of vehicle in this Texas community.

Google Fire Tesla Texas. Enjoy!

Well that doesn't actually turn up any results, except for that one incident that made the news, with the drivers in the backseat. And this article debunking the fire claims: https://cleantechnica.com/2021/12/08/its-extremely-rare-for-...

How do you have accurate stats of every vehicle fire in your town by make and model? I doubt you do, which is why your statement sounds dishonest

>In fact the rank best in class in pretty much ever safety rating in pretty much every country.

That's not true. No NCAP ratings have Tesla at the best as far as I can see. There's even a Chinese/Israeli company releasing their very first car ever that beats Tesla in EuroNCAP ratings? It's not even in top ten as far as I can see. Strangely it seem to get better ratings in all tests in the US compared to elsewhere. Of it is corruption or a car made to beat a test instead of for real life safety I don't know but something stinks.

In the Bay Area city where I live, during rush hour I can regularly count 60+ Teslas just walking around my block. I haven't heard of one such incident.

You don't live in Texas heat either.

i have been an electric vehicle enthusiast and evangelist for more than a decade, well before anyone knew tesla or elon. i know everything about electric cars. i can state with total confidence that the hottest ambient temperature that a tesla might encounter would have precisely zero chance of causing the battery to overheat, let alone overheat to the point of creating thermal runaway.

I'd just ignore him. He doesn't know what he's talking about

Battery car fires are much more likely to make it in to the news than your every day combustion engine vehicle fire which are far more numerous.

For reasons including the ratio of such cars on the road, and the relative ease of putting out an ICE fire versus a multi-day un-extinguishable lithium battery fire. An NHTSA study in 2018 predicts that the rate of such fires will be "somewhat comparable" between vehicle types, it's the duration and severity of the fires that differ.

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