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Is that an aged adjusted statistic?

Or is it comparing with the entire gasoline vehicle fleet?

Consider that every single human being on the planet carries around a lithium battery in their pocket, at a large percentage of those batteries have experienced such damage that would destroy the glass screen on those devices, and yet people are not bursting into flames regularly, and even the defective batteries that Samsung distributed for a while only made events extremely rare.

Lithium batteries are pretty safe in practice.

Safe enough to not be allowed on air freight.

Safe enough to not be allowed in checked baggage on commercial passenger aircraft.

Safe enough to kill e-bike riders, safe enough to kill people at home charging their e-bike / e-scooter / electric car.

Perfectly safe.

No trade offs, just safety.

All of those apply to gasoline

I want you to travel with half a gallon of gasoline (i.e. 2 litres of petrol) in your hold and/or hand luggage. See how that goes for you.

And yet, people travel with one or often more than one battery devices as a matter of utterly unremarkable routine.

Why ask things that you can easily look up?

Sea lions don't merely "look things up", they ask you to do it for them.

Oh, sorry, I thought we were having a conversation.

My mistake.

"A civil conversation about my statement" quite.

I'm not buying it and you shouldn't be selling it.

This is all very off-topic to the original discussion about reduction in air pollution.

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