{"id":39487,"date":"2025-03-14T13:24:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=39487"},"modified":"2025-03-14T13:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:24:13","slug":"youre-wrong-about-ev-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=39487","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re Wrong About EV Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motortrend.com\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Car-on-Fire-2.jpg?w=768&amp;width=768&amp;q=75&amp;format=webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">There are far more gas- and diesel-powered vehicle fires than those involving EVs, but you wouldn\u2019t know that from the headlines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motortrend.com\/features\/you-are-wrong-about-ev-fires\/\">You\u2019re Wrong About EV Fires<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;According to MSB data,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msb.se\/sv\/aktuellt\/nyheter\/2023\/maj\/brander-i-eltransportmedel-under-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\">there are nearly 611,000 EVs and hybrids in Sweden<\/a>\u00a0as of 2022. With an average of 16 EV and hybrid fires per year, there&#8217;s a 1 in 38,000 chance of fire. There are a total of roughly 4.4 million gas- and diesel-powered passenger vehicles in Sweden, with an average of 3,384 fires per year, for a 1 in 1,300 chance of fire. That means gas- and diesel-powered passenger vehicles are 29 times more likely to catch fire than EVs and hybrids.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are far more gas- and diesel-powered vehicle fires than those involving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[435,244,1768],"class_list":["post-39487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-battery","tag-ev","tag-fires","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39490,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39487\/revisions\/39490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}