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There's a Jeep color named "Impact Orange", now here's notoriously flammable type of car named "Blazer". I'd have thought that they would avoid names that evoke things that can go horribly wrong with their product, but I guess the need for edginess in getting attention outweighs that.

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The Blazer is a name that has been in production since the 70s. BEV fires, with scary lithium flames, are apparently newsworthy, while the 170,000 ICE vehicle fires with their tanks of explosive gasoline are "normal."

It's going to be a long time before there are more battery-powered Blazer blazes than traditional Blazer blazes...

Yeah it's kind of sad that the media has framed EVs as fire risks even though they are 20 to 80 times less likely to be on fire than an ICE.

It's a real concern for fire departments that don't have readily available equipment to deal with massive battery fires. Even though it's rare it's still worthy of criticism.

EVs are way heavier than ICE vehicles with a similar form factor, more energy involved in collisions. They also go through tires and wear down the road surface faster.

Their road wear pales in comparison to semis and they are similar in weight to popular trucks

I think this every time I see a paid review for EVSEs from "ShockFlo". Somehow it doesn't seem to matter.

Huh? Blazer has been around since the 70s? Your comment is so confusing.

Circa 1992 I was in college and my neighbor in the dorm had a Chevy Blazer. She was driving around south of Socorro looking for a good place to see the night sky and broke down and figured out her best bet was to walk into the White Sands missile range and get caught by the security patrols.

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