Not that e-cars catch fire more often: a study from the USA now proves the opposite. Combustion and hybrid vehicles catch fire far more often.
Stuttgart/Washington DC – Extinguishing an e-car fire often presents fire departments with major challenges. Since the vehicles keep catching fire, the cars in containers are completely flooded with water in order to really eliminate every source of the fire. One reads more and more often about such serious e-car fires. However, as a study from the USA now shows, cars with combustion engines and hybrid models catch fire far more often.
BW24* knows all the details of the study on e-car fires.
Basically, the following applies: According to experts, electrified vehicles are no more or less dangerous than combustion engines in the event of so-called fires resulting from an accident. *BW24 is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
