Originally Posted by
big john
I have seen where electric cars cause fear and loathing. There have been fires but anything that reinforces that fear, no matter how phony, will be believed.
A quick check on the net shows gas cars to catch fire 60x more often than EVs yet I get asked frequently if I'm afraid for my wife to drive an EV. In fact, in my area, we average 85-100 gas car fires per year over the last 5 years. There have been no EV fires over the same time span.