Comment by ssl-3

> At least ICE car fires can be extinguished, and without special equipment.

That's not quite right. It's not like a non-special equipment like bucket of water or a garden hose (and I, for one, always travel with one of each!) work well for extinguishing any working car fire.

The remains of ICE car fires I've seen while out and about, while very few, are usually just hulks of vaguely car-shaped metal that have turned rusty from the heat by the time I come across them.

Car fires are never good. They're seldom easy to put out. EV fires can be worse in a lot of ways, but that doesn't make the other kinds of car fires saintly or anything.

> Do ICE cars spontaneously erupt in flames while you’re sitting in it waiting for it charge?

Nope. Except: One doesn't have to go very far on teh Interweb to find videos of car fires at gas stations, either.

> Do ICE cars spontaneously erupt in flames after a relatively low speed impact

Sometimes.

> and lock the occupants inside

Sometimes people can't get out.

> and immediately fill the cabin with fumes from a rapidly degradging lithium ion battery?

Nope.

> Do ICE cars spontaneously erupt in flames taking down whole RORO car transport vessels at sea?

Not usually.

People don't usually die from getting hit on the side of the road while pouring gas from a jerry can into their EV, either.

> Do ICE cars spontaneously erupt in flames in your garage at night

Not often, but sometimes.

> and ignite your whole house, while you and your family are sleeping?

I'm not answering that. I take too much pleasure in ignoring uselessly-specific addendums to questions like this. You'll have to forgive me.