In fact, battling a Tesla vehicle fire in 2021, firefighters required 40 times more water to put the EV flames out, than they would've for a gasoline car, per The Hill.

In 2023, Sweden’s Authority for Social Protection and Preparedness (MSB) reported just 24 EV car fires in 2022, representing just 0.004% of the country’s 611,000 EVs.4 For cars running on ...

A ship holding thousands of cars sank in the Pacific Ocean on Monday, weeks after a fire broke out on a deck that was holding ...

Midas sank in the North Pacific Ocean, weeks after crew members abandoned ship when they couldn't extinguish an onboard fire.

An electric vehicle nearly proved to be an actual death trap for one collegiate basketball recruit. Alijah Arenas -- son of former NBA star Gilbert Arenas -- found himself in panic mode last April ...

Three weeks after a fire broke out on the ship off the coast of Alaska, the Morning Midas sank, along with thousands of cars ...

A cargo ship that had been hauling 3,000 new cars caught fire and sank in the North Pacific Ocean. The Morning Midas sank ...

More than 30 firefighters put out an electric vehicle fire at an Edmonds car dealership on July 12, 2024. The fire was reported around 10 a.m. in an unoccupied EV at the dealership at State Route ...

The United States Coast Guard says the ship also had 350 metric tons of gas fuel and 1,530 metric tons of low sulfur fuel ...

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Despite a spate of devastating fires, electric vehicles are not any more dangerous to transport than petrol-powered cars.