Comment Re:And water (Score 1) 309
" ICE are more prone to burning than EVs are" True. What's *also* true is that EV battery fires are VERY difficult to extinguish and are also prone to SPONTANEOUS REIGNITION hours or days later.
ICE carbecues are somewhere between 20 and 400 times more likely, depending on how (and when) it's measured. For instance, the 400x figure comes from measuring per-mile-driven, not just fleet sizes. Meaning... (numbers for example only) if you had 10 EVs and 100 ICEs and in a year only one of each burned, you'd conclude ICE were safer because 1% is better than 10%. But what if the EVs each drove 200,000 miles that year while the the ICE cars each drove 200 miles. Suddenly the real-world frequency would flip the interpretation of the results.
Point is... you can capitalize SCARY WORDS to MAKE PEOPLE WORRIED but pretty much everywhere you go to get the facts, it turns out BEVs are INSANELY SAFER.
Here's one for you. Are Catholic priests more - or less - likely to molest children than non-priests? Seems like every time you hear about some inappropriate touching that doesn't involve a sitting president or his friends, it's about a priest, right? Only... that's what you hear about. And that's what you notice because it confirms a pattern of what you've heard in the past instead of refuting it. It's what you remember. But wait... why does the press pick those stories? Do they hate the church? No. It's just that when a reporter is given two options... a story about a priest and a story about an accountant, they'll pick the story about the priest because it draws attention... because it tweaks their statistical bias too. Turns out it's dramatically, absurdly worse to let your kids be around their own family than a priest, if your goal is to protect them. But facts are hard. Confirmation bias is strong. Cognitive dissonance is real and it hurts.
So hey, statistically-speaking, with regards to vehicle fires, EV cars are way, way less likely to harm anyone than ICE cars. Any "but factor X" in the mix is just printing a priest story; misleading regardless of truth.