Is It a Misperception That EV Fires Are Common?

30 Aug 2023 | Abstracted from Autoweek

"It doesn't matter if ICE vehicles catch fire more often, or even as often as EVs. The pictures are more spectacular, and it plays on the public's fear of the unknown...Nickel-based chemistries create their own oxygen during a thermal event..LFP batteries are less likely to have a 'thermal event'...

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