Re:Volvo Tells Plug-In Hybrid Owners to Stop Charging
by goalieca on Friday March 28, 2025 @08:13PM
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EV fire in an underground parking garage or home garage is a scary thought.
Re:Volvo Tells Plug-In Hybrid Owners to Stop Charging
by gambiting on Friday March 28, 2025 @08:20PM
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Is it more scary than an ICE car fire? A fuel tank of most ICE cars carries more energy than even the largest EV batteries - and many underground garages and homes have been burnt down to a crisp from a regular car fire, once it gets going it really doesn't matter what type of car it is.
In fact one of the largest car insurance claims in history is from a Ford truck that caught fire on a ferry in transit, burning down all of its (very expensive) cargo.
https://www.jalopnik.com/how-one-suv-fire-destroyed-45-milli...
Even in this case - Volvo identified one case where a problem occured, and decided to recall 7000 cars(out of 100s of thousands sold), and even among those they said they will check first if they even need to have a battery module replaced.
In the meantime my last petrol Mercedes was recalled 3 times in my 4 years of ownership.....each time for a fire risk. And that was part of larger recall spanning 100s of thousands of cars globally.