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Re:GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other... by dredmorbius on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:59PM (#28558255)
Fuel-based cars tend to burn after an extreme adverse event, usually a collision.

Battery fires are more frequently spontaneous, or occur during charging.

How many barbequed children do you find an acceptable number?

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Re:GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other... by throwaway0a5e on Friday September 17, 2021 @06:47AM (#28563729)
Battery fires usually happen after collisions too. Fires while charging are rare but they grab headlines because they're novel.

I think trying to use inspections to solve that is a case of barking up a really stupid tree. In the case of EV charging fires there's not really much a mechanic can inspect that some electronics cobbled onto the pack couldn't. In the case of battery pack damage an annual inspection isn't going to do much good since most of those cases will cause problems before that or not at all.

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Re:GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other... by dredmorbius on Friday September 17, 2021 @01:14PM (#28568034)
"Parked Teslas Keep Catching on Fire Randomly, And There's No Recall In Sight"

https://www.thedrive.com/news/28420/parked-teslas-keep-catch...

Article list 9 cases. None involved accidents. Several were during charging, one during transport (on a flatbed truck).

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