Another car caught on fire and completely burned.

If it was a Prius, the news will bang on about how unsafe lithium batteries are.
Can guarantee that one

I don't know if a lot of people understand the differences in battery tech.

 

actually, a prius will get a lot more media hype than a gasser, but probably less than a tesla, since they're reporting tesla fires as far away as shanghai

 

south eastern conference?

 

Only recent Prii(2016) have Li-ion, and even then, not all of them.

 

Yup. Since a regular gasser burns about every 2 minutes in the U.S., it simply isn't news. Only something exotic, like an EV or Prius, is 'news'.

From a link posted to another thread here long ago:

"U.S. VEHICLE FIRE TRENDS AND PATTERNS
...
Abstract

In 2003-2007, U.S. fire departments responded to an average of 287,000 vehicle fires per year. These fires caused an average of 480 civilian deaths, 1,525 civilian injuries, and $1.3 billion in direct property damage annually. Cars, trucks and other highway vehicles (meaning a vehicle designed for highway use, not that the fire occurred on a highway) accounted for 93% of the vehicle fires and 92% of the vehicle fire deaths."

http://tkolb.net/FireReports/US_VehFirTrePat2003-2007.pdf

 

What about those darn House fires, they never makes the news! Thanks for pointing out how unsafe cars can be!

 

Battery-powered cars remain a tiny minority in the U.S., with sales of EVs accounting for just 1.2 percent of total new vehicles delivered in the U.S. last year, according to data from Edmunds. So of course we will not see as many EV fires as gas powered cars. But in my 30 plus years of driving hundreds of thousands of miles, I have seen 2 car fire, and that was within the last few years. Of course these were older cars, so fuel lines will age. Lack of maintenance is not a particular cars fault.