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Officials Warned Electric Vehicles Can Catch Fire In Helene Flooding: What To Know
04 Oct 2024 | Abstracted from USA Today
"Flooding from Hurricane Ian...in 2022, damaged an estimated 358,000 vehicles in Florida and the Carolinas. However, only 21 electric vehicles are known to have caught fire...
"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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