G. David Felt

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.

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.

@Robert Hall I would so love this Cadillac if it was actually available in EV format. Cadillac Should Revive The Eldorado To Rival Mercedes-Benz, Porsche - Autoblog AI Generated Image - Ice Version AI Generated EV version

It's a Mercedes, did you expect anything else from an overpriced 400V auto. I view most of what Mercedes did for EVs as compliance with minimal effort as to why they are all end of life. Hopefully their new 800V EVs will be truly better. I would take a Porche or Audi EV over Mercedes EV.

While having seen the Cadillac family of EVs on the lot, until today, I have not seen any in the wild other than Lyriq. Today I spotted my first Vistiq and EscaladeIQ in downtown Seattle. The Vistiq is clearly a baby EscaladeIQ, have to say if GM supported AA/AC I would be very interested in buying one.

Would love to have an EV version of this car!!!

Kia needs to bring this EV here now. Kia’s New Electric 7-Seater Costs Less Than You’d Expect And Offers More Than You Think

Very cool to see just how good EVs are for the planet even taking into account battery production. Electric cars are the cleanest—and getting cleaner faster than expected - International Council on Clean Transportation

Any update from Ford on fixing this right rather than taking away a feature you paid for? Seems Ford (Found on Road Dead) or (Fix and Repair Daily) is becoming the leading recall company. https://driving.ca/features/safety/ford-recalls-2025-issue-problem-fix

Learned something new, as the owners manual is huge and not all sections are current, got my hands on the latest version of the owners manual that covers smart driving assist. It does have lane changing ability, but I must configure my profile for it to work. Will do that this week and test it.

Thinking old school, considering how much more space EVs are giving in smaller over all packages. Nissan has stated that the 3rd generation Leaf will start out FWD, but have an AWD option after launch. Length in growing an ICE auto is old school thinking in making room for other ice auto's and yet that is where looking at comparison of seating space, cargo space, etc. we see much more space in the EVs that are equal in many cases to an ICE one class bigger. I am only pointing out that price is an old comparison tool for like segments and that with EVs this will change as people look at the price but also the inside space and we will see a bigger mix of comparison of ICE to EV across categories.