The other thing is that these EVs are extremely dangerous in accidents. They can shower hundreds to several thousands of lithium ion batteries across a wide area, which can burn for days, explode violently, and release hydrogen fluoride gas, which one very nasty gas to breath in causing permanent severe lung damage and blindness, if not death in a few seconds to minutes of exposure.,(reply>), @Lord of Nothing You will very likely never see those showers. Once the critical conditions are met they are likely to explode in larger groups simultaniously. The OP did overestimate the risk of explosions but underestimate the risk to electrocution of rescue workers involved in these car accidents.<br><br>I'm not aware with situations in other regions but it seems that in Europe EV's are overly presents in fires while not in use due to charging.<br><br>By the way, Li-ion batteries are also causing issues in aviation, several reports of cargohold fires are leading to parces containing batteries. Sofar not leading to chrashes but some cargo planes were total loss on the ground.<br>Sad thing is this will never hit the news untill the death toll is high enough. Just like the case in the 90's where cheap wiring caused several planes catching fire but only the mid-air explosion in New York made headlines.,(reply>), and yet we never see these "battery showers" and statiscially EVs burn a lot less (yes, even accounting for relative numbers) than gasoline ones. so at least this point is not really an issue. (but its true, once they burn its really! hard to put them out.),(reply>), @Martijn Maas I like a well structured answer - thank you (beats the usual trolls),(reply>), @Garrett Hammerel Theorethicly he's not wrong: A battery contains many small cells. There are however a few factors that reduces these risks. A single small cell exploding in the open will be just a firecracker so the health risk will be an average 4th of july.<br>An accident where the battery is completely shred to pieces will be just a lot of firecrackers in the rain: Some might catch fire, some might even explode. But not all and not all at once.<br><br>A severe accident where a fire will cause the critical conditions for the big bang is fortunately an event where everybody should run away from, except the hero's equipt for the job with AB's and hoses. I mentioned in my other reaction that firefighters and rescue workers do have their valid concerns and are working on new methodes to deal with it.<br><br>I don't want to downplay the risks but we have to put them in perspective with all the other perrils of everyday life.,(reply>), @Horthorn There have been several cases already where rescuers could not save victems from burning EV's. Several luxury appartmentbuildings already had fires due to combusting EV's charging overnight in indoor garage parkings.<br>Over the last few years firedpartments are advocating a ban on indoor charging while developing explosion proof containers to "salvage" burning EV's from roadside accidents and let them burn out in a more controled area.<br><br>The only reason you might not have seen it is due to the relative low numbers but incidents are increasing.