They are more dangerous than gas fires and many people do not understand this yet. While it might be 10 years old, most people have not used nor understand many parts of EV's, like regenerative breaking, the lower center of gravity and the dangers of the batteries.

This isn’t an educational article about how to drive an EV. It’s fearmongering about electric vehicles

> Why is this news

You are in a way right: not strictly "«news»", but information (a piece of information) for awareness in a phase in which the general population (and even a greater set) does not have yet a full picture of new technologies.

> ten years old

The term 'radioactivity' was coined by Marie Curie in 1898; use of uranium in dentistry was banned in the USA in 1984. Ten years are not much.

I said that because the critics would respond with the reason the article was written is because they are “new”. Everyone knows that electricity is “older” and that they actually “came out” much longer ago

Disassembled cars on fire at Sydney airport are not a common occurance and are absolutely news. The publisher is an Australian nes site for Australians, who don't really find EVs contraversial.

Are there also articles written when a gar car catches fire though? That is the key question.

If it was disassembled in the Sydney airport carpark and on fire, yes there would be. The circumstances are unusual enough regardless of power source here.

Yes: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-04/sydney-airport-bus-gu..., and you can see more fires at Sydney Airport at https://discover.abc.net.au/index.html?siteTitle=news#/?quer...

I'm confused why you think a fire at Sydney Airport (of any cause) wouldn't be news?