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ok but show the ev fires at least..
https://www.firerescue1.com/lithium-ion-battery-fires/burning-truck-carrying-li-ion-batteries-shuts-down-calif-interstate-for-over-40-hours
40hours to wait for an EV battery fire too calm down from a truck accident carrying the batteries. I'm not saying evs are bad by any means, but this image is disingenuous imo.
The actual images are also generated slop.
Well yeah it's blatant propaganda. lol
The picture you offer for comparison is literally a truck load of batteries though. Seeing that an EV's battery typically fits under the floor pan of the car, are we talking like, the equivalent of 10 cars worth of batteries in that pic?
But once the interior of a car catches fire from whatever starting source the pictures all look pretty much the same as they're all filled with lovely hydrocarbon-based plastics that all burn in the same manner.
Well, except for the fact that lithium fires don't go out. Like, you have to bury the entire vehicle in water to starve it from oxygen so that the fire will stop burning, and if you take it out of the water, then it will start burning again.
Like, don't get me wrong. I'm very pro electric vehicle, but the quality of the fire matters just as much as the quantity of the fire.
Truck with burning batteries would be akin to a truck with a damaged burning fuel cistern/tank.
They make up for lost time I guess
A burning diesel trunk.
If it had been an electric truck 98% chance it wouldn't have been on fire in the first place.