Hi Mick
I have no problem in you being enthusiastic about EVs
But be real please Fires in electric vehicles burn much hotter than those in conventional gas-powered cars and are more challenging to extinguish fully. The temperature of an electric vehicle fire can reach 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, compared with 1,500 degrees in a gas-powered car fire.21 May 2024
Petrol will catch fire depending upon the composition from which it is blended along with other factors like pressure, oxygen content and mode of ignition. Normally petrol will catch fire above a temperature of 250 C. But if the pressure conditions are high pressurized then it may go up to 280–300 C .12 May 2021
Lithium fires are less than petrol fires but lithium powered vehicles are of a much lower number of registered vehicles on the road so comparison in that manner is false
The simple fact is that when there is a lithium based fire they cannot put it out in minutes as they can a petrol based fire, and as the fires/flames come out under extreme pressure they are far more dangerous and can spread quicker and further than a petrol fire
In fact there has at this time been very little done by authorities to train fire staff if fighting these fires with the standard procedure being to let it burn out (two days ?)
So please be enthusiastic about EVs which only have one major disadvantage and that is the lack of a suitable power source, until possibly nuclear is available all EVs are toys
