Hybrid Vehicle Catches Fire in Los Alamos

It doesn’t take long before discussions about hybrids and EVs to go incendiary

ShastaGuy: Thank you for the link. Driving our gas-guzzling vehicles may seem old fashioned to some, but keeping ourselves and loved one safe never/ever gets old. It makes no sense for anyone to drone on about how wonderful modern electric vehicles are when they are not. E-vehicles are certainly less safe to operate than century-plus old internal combustion vehicles/clunkers. We were recently in Europe (mostly Germany), and many parking garages did not allow e-cars....go figure. If not already implemented, I believe these spontaneously burning vehicles will soon be banned from ferries as well. The last thing I want to happen to me or my family is to go down to Davy Jone's Locker on a flaming euro ferry due to someone's desire to "save the planet!" I just read that four or five rental cars rented by the Secret Service burned to the ground in the past couple of days (none of them e-cars though).

Hybrid vehicles catch fire at more than double the rate of gas powered vehicles (3474 per 100K, vs 1530 per 100K). EV only vehicles light up at very low rates, only 25 per 100K, but when they it’s a spectacular fail.

https://thedriven.io/2022/01/11/evs-have-extremely-low-chance-of-catching-fire-but-hybrids-more-risky-data-shows/

There was a recall of some Prius' a while back (2018) due to a wiring issue (not a battery issue):
"Toyota is recalling about a million Prius hybrid vehicles from around the world due to a “fire risk” caused by a wiring issue that generates heat. Of the million cars, 192,000 of them are in the US, it announced yesterday in a press release.
If you own a Prius manufactured between mid-2015 and May 2018, check with a Toyota dealer to see if your vehicle has the wiring issue. Affected vehicles will be fixed for free." The Verge.
Chances are that the fire was in the wiring and spread to the battery, not the other way around . . .

Certainly, the threat of fire is what keeps many people away from purchasing these "eco" vehicles. I've had dozens of cars over the years and never had one of them spontaneously have burned to the ground like these seem to do on a quite regular basis. Aside from these e-vehicles, the only other car that would burn down regularly were the 60s/70s Volkswagen hatchback (oil would pool up on the top part of the engine and ignite...or something like that). I'll continue to buy gas guzzlers as long as possible, and hopefully by the time I am forced to buy an electric car maybe they will be safe and not catch fire all the time.

6:15 p.m.? I am blown away by the quality of the photos, as it looks like daylight. I mean, the fog is even visible. Were these photos really taken in the dark? TIA.

The "news" IS that fighting a conventional vehicle fire (gas/diesel) is entirely different than the hazards and extinguishment of electric vehicles, namely hazardous materials that need to be addressed once a difficult extinguishment is mitigated.

Green Terrorism: Hybrid kills fossil burner in murder/suicide.

LOL i figured that was why its been posted, Sac...but really. if this is "news", then we have far bigger problems....

Ugh, great. Cue the green haters in 3...2...1.......

"See? Green is evil! Liberal cars are now attacking innocent gas-powered cars!"

why is this "news"? cars catch fire every day, all over the country/world.