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Re:Volvo Tells Plug-In Hybrid Owners to Stop Charging by chmod775 on Friday March 28, 2025 @08:15PM (#43511407)
Combustion-engine cars catch fire all the time, but that rarely makes headlines.

Search for recent results of "car catches fire" on google news or wherever, and you'll probably get a dozen incidents just for the past day, and even those will be mostly only newsworthy because the car in question caused a road closure or someone was injured.

If a car burns down and nobody is impacted in any way, it doesn't even make the news.

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Re:Volvo Tells Plug-In Hybrid Owners to Stop Charging by woleium on Sunday March 30, 2025 @01:36PM (#43525935)
Humans are notably bad at evaluating low probability, high impact risk. An ICE car burning in the street has lower potential for life threatening damage than a PHEV burning when in a garage of a house overnight (ignoring the difficulty fire crews have dealing with battery fires).

Besides, Volvo has safety at the heart of its brand image, so it makes sense that they would issue an overly cautious warning.

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