Officials Warned Electric Vehicles Can Catch Fire In Helene Flooding: What To Know

04 Oct 2024 | Abstracted from USA Today

"Experts say it is not necessarily more likely for an electric vehicle to catch fire due to flooding with only a small percentage of registered EVs doing so...For every 100,000 electric vehicles, 25 catch fire annually...for every 100,000 gas-powered cars, 1,530 fires are reported a year..."

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