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Every single person who spouts shit about EV fires also spends well over 20 hours a day with exactly the same battery technology six inches from their genitalia.
...they sleep with those batteries next to their faces.
...they abuse the hell out of the containers those batteries sit in. Drops, overheating, extreme temperatures, overcharging.
...most of them have multiple batteries in multiple devices on them. You stick them in your fucking ears. You wear them on your wrists.
But it's the car that's dangerous. Definitely the car. Not the bomb next to your dick.
I don't want to fucking hear it.
While I agree with your sentiment, the glaring difference is none of the items you listed are used in situations which result in high speed, high mass, and resultantly high energy collisions.
EV fires wouldn't be as newsworthy if Tesla didn't have idiotic door latch mechanisms that trap occupants in their cars. EV fires would be less impactful if they didn't use lithium batteries and if those batteries didn't typically span the bottom of the passenger compartment.
Yeah, I totally can't take the ear bud out once it's caught on fire, it's a really poor design...
Yeah, man, people walk around with little sticks of dynamite, why are they concerned about the literal ton of TNT on these cars? They're equally dangerous! /s
I don't disagree that it's an overblown issue, but it's not NOT an issue. EVs will burn for longer, hotter, and are harder to put out than ICE vehicles, but I don't think it's a compelling argument against adoption.
But the difference in scale between the examples you gave is extremely hilarious