Aussies buy up C8s

[Derek Nicol]

The article you put a link to says it.. 'Experts agree that electric cars catch fire less often than gasoline-powered cars, but the duration and intensity of the fires due to the implementation of lithium-ion battery systems can make the fires in electric cars much harder to put out'.
If there is on thing you can use to 'bash' electric cars its that 'Thermal runaway' in a Lithium-ion Battery is nasty.. very nasty. The best thing to do is walk away and leave it. If you must do something the only thing you can do is try to cool the battery with lots of water (seems like exactly the wrong thing to do with high voltage electricity).

 

[Derek Nicol]

Tesla controls press marketing of electric vehicles and does not like negative press so every time one of his burns to the ground
he markets press to talk about fuel vehicles

Actually, the media dont like Tesla because they have never spent a cent on advertising whereas all the other car makers have huge advertising budgets.

 

[Derek Nicol]

Googled it: 'Petrol cars are 11 times more likely to catch fire compared to a Tesla, with only 5 fires for every billion miles travelled compared to 55 fires per billion miles for petrol cars.

 

[Derek Nicol]

Type 'Corvette on fire' into your search engine and go to images..
Im surprised theres any left!!

 

[Nassau65]

I lost a car through a petrol fire in the engine bay.. barbecued Alfa Romeo.

Dad lost a Lincoln continental MKIV and a Trans Am to a engine fire in the garage. Sad as they were both pretty new when it happened.

 

[Nassau65]

Type 'Corvette on fire' into your search engine and go to images..
Im surprised theres any left!!

I had a 75 catch fire on my dads driveway. Went up in a flash. Luckily nothing else damaged or anybody hurt.

 

[Ray Quayle]

I lost a car through a petrol fire in the engine bay.. barbecued Alfa Romeo.

Then it’s called a “Carbecue”!