Comment by ben_w

> All ICE cars, or only those as old as the BEV fleet?

You tell us.

From the way you wrote this comment, you seem to have a pre-existing belief that ICE is safer despite the evidence to the contrary, it looks like this because you're asking questions that are nonsensically specific, to paraphrase "does a ICE car catch fire while charging?", given that depending solely on how you count the tiny little lead battery in an ICE they *either* don't charge at all but rather refuel *or* they continuously charge while running.

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

False.

There are many different classifications of fire, each with their own special equipment; liquid fuel is amongst them, just as electrical fires are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_extinguisher

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

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=petrol+station+fire&t=osx&ia=image...

> Do ICE cars spontaneously erupt in flames after a relatively low speed impact and lock the occupants inside and immediately fill the cabin with fumes from a rapidly degradging lithium ion battery?

Re "lock the occupants inside", that sounds like you're talking about Tesla's design flaws, which is a "Tesla" problem not a "battery" problem. Other EV companies aren't as dumb as Musk has been with Tesla over the last decade.

Also, firefighters have for my entire life carried tools specifically for breaking open vehicles that had been smashed in ways that stopped the doors working: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_rescue_tool

And window-breaker hammers have likewise been standard emergency kit for a long time, though I don't know when they started getting recommended for drivers themselves.

Re "from a rapidly degradging lithium ion battery", petrol and diesel fumes are also pretty nasty.

Irrelevant framing aside, post-crash fires are actually more common in ICE vehicles due to fuel system breaches.

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

Yes.

Stats I've found with a cursory glance say that there's more risk from the ship's own engine than all the vehicles, ICE and BEV combined, that it carries.

> Do ICE cars spontaneously erupt in flames in your garage at night and ignite your whole house, while you and your family are sleeping?

Yes, and are more likely to than BEVs.