Electric Car Fire Statistics 2025 - ConsumerAffairs

While data on vehicle fires is limited, evidence from other countries suggests electric vehicle fires are rarer than those in gas-powered cars. Electric Car Fire Statistics 2025 | ConsumerAffairs® ... Read More

I-Team: How concerned should you be about your electric vehicle catching fire? - CBS News

The report shows out of 20,315 gasoline car fatalities from 2013-2017, there were 644 reported fires; for hybrids, 543 fatalities and 21 fires and electric cars had 41 fatal crashes and one fire. Read More

Electric Vehicles: Lots of Fire - National Review

Electric Vehicles (EVs) are not more likely to catch fire than internal combustion engine cars, but when they (or more accurately their batteries) do, the fire is much more difficult to put out. Read More

Many electric vehicles can't go as far as advertised, report says

For an electric vehicle with a listed range of 300 miles, the 12.5% drop would mean it could only go 262.5 miles between charges in perfect conditions, not taking into account the negative effect ... Read More

How much of a fire risk are electric vehicles? - MSN

An additional study by that agency and an American insurer found that just 25 out of 100,000 EVs suffer fire damage. By comparison, 1530 per 100,000 ICE cars experience fire, and hybrid vehicles ... Read More

Here's what you need to know about electric vehicle fires - The Boston Globe

An electric car parked in a driveway in Wareham spontaneously burst into flames Saturday. The Wareham Fire Department extinguished the blaze , spraying 11,000 gallons of water on the vehicle over ... Read More

Batteries don’t make electric vehicles more likely to catch fire than gasoline-powered cars - PolitiFact

There are more gas-powered cars on the road than EVs, so a good way to analyze their relative safety is fires per distance driven. Tesla, which makes more than half of the electric vehicles sold ... Read More