Last year, a Tesla caught fire while charging overnight in a garage, which the Washington Post described as "One in a string of recent examples showing what can happen when electric cars are left parked in garages to charge overnight" and which promoted electric vehicle makers to warn "Owners not to leave the cars charging unattended in certain circumstances, or sitting fully charged in garages."
Last August, GM recalled all the 110,000 Chevrolet Bolt cars it had sold "Due to the risk of the high-voltage battery pack catching fire" and warned owners to park their cars away from buildings and other cars.
Chevrolet recalled about 110,000 of its Volt EV model years 2017 to 2022 for potential battery fire issues.
Electric scooters in India have been catching fire, and let's not forget about the Samsung Galaxy 7 phone that had to be recalled after its lithium-ion battery started catching fire.
From 2012 to 2021, Tesla reports that there was roughly one Tesla vehicle fire for every 210 million miles driven, which compares to one fire per 19 million miles driven for all vehicles.
The National Fire Protection Association reports that 77% of vehicle fires in 2017 that resulted from mechanical or electrical failures "Involved cars with model years of 2007 or earlier." In other words, cars that were more than 10 years old.
Nor do we know what will happen once today's electric cars start to age, and their batteries suffer years of wear and tear.
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