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Re:Emergency Response to the Tesla Model 3 [video] by toomuchtodo on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:10PM (#20414535)
If you read further down the thread you linked to, the cause of vehicle fires in older ICE vehicles is due to neglected maintenance (maintenance not required in an EV).

EVs have no ignitable fluids, nor hot surfaces to ignite those fluids. Ergo, their risk of spontaneous combustion during operating goes down drastically. I concede they may still catch fire after an accident severe enough to breech the battery; this is not preventable due to the energy storage requirements of a light vehicle, combustion-based or otherwise.

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Re:Emergency Response to the Tesla Model 3 [video] by TAForObvReasons on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:21PM (#20414685)
We don't have 15 year data on Tesla vehicles, period. There are theoretical arguments about how the batteries won't explode or corrode, but an apples-to-apples analysis would compare vehicles of similar maintenance and age. The citation the (unfortunately downvoted) parent was asking for was about the statistical claims.
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