When I recently took a trip to China to see the world of electric micromobility, I was greeted with a…

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    26 days ago

    For US electric vehicles, yes. And for most other nations, as your article notes. China is the exception, it seems, with much higher rates of fires occurring.

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        26 days ago

        Good point! Now I’m the one who can’t math. :P Though your source doesn’t seem to mention the cause of the fires? I would assume the batteries, but involved in a fire can be vague. Same for the gasoline vehicles.

        Meanwhile, the original source I have was fires just from the manufacturing of the cars, so not even including the numbers for the vehicles sold themselves.

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          Look, I understand you’re trying to feel like you’re right but you should just accept that compared to gas cars there’s pretty much nothing to worry about, people are freaking out because EV cars are the new thing but the stats are pretty clear, gas cars fires just don’t get as much coverage because gas cars are the norm.