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something like less than 10% of US cars are EV.
The problem is that as EV fire increase the equipment to put out a lithium fire is a different thing. The Telsa EV 18 wheeler truck that caught fire required planes that dump water on wild fires to put it out.
ICE fires are super dangerous. Gasoline is explosive not just flammable.
But don't undercut the reality of contemporary fire departments' budgets not being able to keep up with a lithium soaked world.
Water can’t put a battery fire out. The only way is to cool it for long enough (in the order of magnitude of several days) to stop the fire from reigniting.