Where do you get your information from? I replied to Mike's comment and gave a link to a page that talks about 'exploding' lithium batteries. They are apparently, less common than your gas car exploding.
Well, some of that might be true, but here in Alberta, we have to pay an extra $200 a year to cover those 'road' costs. And I looked up the tire issue and the answers are all over the place. Some sites say they outlast combustion engine car tires, some say they last only 10,000 km while others say up to 40,000km. According to Nokian Tyres, which is setting up a testing facility in Spain, EV's tires generally last longer because of the driver assist features in the cars.....https://www.nokiantyres.com/company/news-article/there-is-a-common-misconception-related-to-electric-cars-in-reality-tires-will-last-for-a-long-time/
And according to one of the links I left above, EV's power shuts off immediately in a collision and the battery is housed in a protective steel case to prevent injury to that battery. And there are about 40,000,000 EV's in the world currently. That's up from 26,000,000 in 2022. In Canada, we have 789,000.
A couple of days ago, I read that a hotel fire was started due to a lithium battery in one of the guests rooms. I'm sure that's not the first fire caused by a lithium battery.
The important thing is that the fire was put out quickly, no one was hurt and the 20-story building wasn't grounded. Thank God for safety !
I think my comment referenced the number of public chargers IN THE WORLD and separately, in Canada. (By the way, my first comment was a misquote on my part, not 789,000 charging stations but actually about 11,000 with about the same average of ports per station). According to this link.....https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-electric-vehicle-charging-stations-are-there-in-the-us/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Alternative%20Fuels,and%203%2C816%20stations%20were%20private. there are 56,000 charging stations with 148,000 ports in them.
Would that have been in someone's phone? Because I believe in one of the links I found, it said that cars have a safety shut off to prevent lithium battery fires. Maybe those are a new development.
I've never said they aren't but according to a link I read and shared here, the numbers of them that explode and burn are less than ICE fires. So how many people give up their cars because they heard that someone's gas tank exploded?
I'd never knowingly lie to other( senior)s here.
I don't know for sure if it was a phone Debrah. You know when they report these stories, they always add that the incidents are under investigation even when an initial suspected cause is mentioned.
