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    • Robert Hall
      Random Thoughts Thread

      By Robert Hall · Posted

      I've had that happen with terriers...even 5lb Yorkies.  Terriers have a strong prey drive as they were originally bred to be ratters centuries ago.. 
    • G. David Felt
      Random Thoughts Thread

      By G. David Felt · Posted

      Seems the most I can find is the 24 investigations here of which only two are electrical and the rest are petrol. Vehicle Fire - Publication Topic - CrashStats - NHTSA - DOT Sadly it would seem many news groups have got caught up in the same AutoInsuranceEZ reporting that is not true. Government data show gasoline vehicles are up to 100x more prone to fires than EVs | Electrek This story does seem to have a broader search of source material for vehicle fires by type and yet they also quote the same flawed AutoInsuranceEZ report that quotes NTSB. Fire risks of hybrid, EV and ICE cars - Pinfa Came across this as the most current 2025 story where they do not use the fake info from AutoInsuranceEZ, but have actually researched this better. Electric Car Fire Statistics 2025 | ConsumerAffairs® Seems here they show EV fires at .004% and Gas/Diesel fires at .08% NFPA does not keep a detailed list of vehicle fires by type but over all and that shows a huge drop since the 1980's.
    • ccap41
      Random Thoughts Thread

      By ccap41 · Posted

      Have a link? Is there not a distinction between gasoline, diesel, and/or any other fuel source?? I also feel like the battery composition should be listed because not all batteries are the same either.  Are these impact-related fires or "spontaneous" combustion? 
    • G. David Felt
      Random Thoughts Thread

      By G. David Felt · Posted

      Just read this and found the NTSB report interesting. Interesting facts, over the last 10 years, there has been 216,000 vehicle fires captured by NTSB. The fires break down as follows: BEV - 25 EVs per 100,000 built caught fire Hybrid - 3,474 Hybrids per 100,000 built caught fire ICE - 48 ice per 100,000 built caught fire. Added complexity is why the Hybrid is so much higher than ICE or BEV per NTSB. UPDATE: Since this started with me randomly coming across the story at AutoInsuranceEZ, I took it for face value.  With the question below from @ccap41 started to search deeper and found this story from car and driver. No, Millions of Cars Are Not Catching Fire Every Year Seems NTSB nor NHTSA track auto fires, but the story says that quote "According to the National Fire Protection Association, which gets its info from the NFIRS, passenger cars averaged 117,400 fires annually between 2013 and 2017. And the Bureau of Transportation Statistics says that there were 261,037,752 registered vehicles in the US in 2018 (excluding semi-trucks, motorcycles, and buses). So, do a little division, carry the one . . . and that equals .04 percent of vehicles catching fire in a given year." They have reached out to AutoInsuranceEZ but have not received any response back. As such, I have found many other stories that point to the NTSB that really end up quoting AutoInsuranceEZ. So it would seem we do not have any real detailed stats on this. Sad as I would think there would be tracking, but due to what is stated above, it seems to be a very small amount and no clear picture of what powertrain is causing the biggest amount of fires.
    • trinacriabob
      Random Thoughts Thread

      By trinacriabob · Posted

      Still sticking to the now gone Passat for what could serve me ... and that would include dogs, albeit medium sized ones. I love dogs and like cats.  A friend in New England had a great all black female cat that was an attention whore and warmed up to guests in no time.  He told me she would periodically kill a small bird and bring it to him as a gift, with not much interest in eating it. Meh.  I don't think someone's Lab or Golden would do that, if not in hunting mode with its owner.  All the Labs I knew of growing up just wanted to be in the backyard pool with kids.

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