This is quite a good balanced article from a reliable source about EV Fire Risks.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/how-mu...&ei=31 FL2 XS SD4 Auto 2010 2012-2017 (21k - 91k miles) (MY2011)
FL2 Metropolis SD4 Auto 2014 2017- (16k - 77k+ miles) (MY2015)
Metro in its 11th Year of (Extended) LR Warranty / Full LR Service History
(Expensive, but Trouble/Worry free - hopefully?)

Having looked at the video on a larger screen, I agree, the vehicle wasn't parked in a bay, so was probably being driven when it caught alight. The flames are definitely at the front around the bulkhead area, which is where an ICE vehicle with an engine fire starts to show flames first.
A BEV fire starts under the vehicle, often with jets of flames and gasses coming out from below the floor.
A hybrid RR battery is located under the boot floor, which isn't where this fire starts at all. I would conclude that the vehicle possibly had a fuel leak, which ignited on the hot exhaust. The result is what happened here. Hyundai Ioniq 5 Ultimate. The family car.
2009 Rimini Red SE TD4. Gone.
2006 Tonga Green i6 HSE. Gone.
Audi A5 convertible, my daily driver.
1972 Hillman Avenger GT, the project.

IanMetro wrote:

This is quite a good balanced article from a reliable source about EV Fire Risks.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/how-mu...&ei=31

Thanks Nodge for the reassurance that safer EVs are on the way.
Can you say which manufacturers will change to these safer batteries and when can we see them in cars.
Also, which type of battery these new British based Gigifactories will make. FL2 XS SD4 Auto 2010 2012-2017 (21k - 91k miles) (MY2011)
FL2 Metropolis SD4 Auto 2014 2017- (16k - 77k+ miles) (MY2015)
Metro in its 11th Year of (Extended) LR Warranty / Full LR Service History
(Expensive, but Trouble/Worry free - hopefully?)

I’m getting irritated about the choice of words the news are using I heard yesterday the fire was started by a lithium battery in a diesel car,that’s an EV and it wasn’t the diesel that spontaneously combusted it was the battery. Few weeks ago when those migrants were put on the barge Sky News woman said the migrants have started arriving on lorries. I turned over to another channel and they had film of them arriving in luxury air conditioned coaches with a big TV in the front.

I wonder how long before public car parks ban them or home insurance is void if you park one in your garage and the house goes up ?

There are more problems with cheap and possibly poorly maintained batteries in scooters and electric bikes that are taken indoors, even into blocks of flats and charged in access ways. There have already been deaths as a result of the fires caused.

There will be problems etc with electric cars and there’s going to be people and media going on about etc etc. Then when they lower the prices it will all be forgotten, goes on all the time with products and buisness. Money soon alters people’s views.

Came across this video:
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and this one:
&ab_channel=AutoExpertJohnCadogan MY 09 GS manual in Lago Grey, Wood Co arm rest and side bumper strips - now sold.

MY 15 SD4 SE Auto Orkney Grey with colour coded Bumper Door Mouldings

The Luton edition RR - two tone - orange with charcoal grey on top - goes like a rocket apparently  Jules

I see on the news this week, some insurance companies
are refusing to insure EVs owing to the high cost of repair.  DAVE.

I know several people at work with EVs, and all have no issues with insurance. However a friend of mine has a Tesla as a company car, which apparently is very expensive or impossible to insure as in individual. It's Tesla that have limited parts supply, and won't allow anyone but Tesla approved repairers to work on them, which is why the repair costs are so high. I've heard a rumour that Tesla deliberately over quote the repairs, so the insurance writes the vehicle off instead, meaning Tesla sell another new one as a replacement. It might be just hearsay, but it does sound plausible to me, especially when I've seen Tesla quote over £20,000 for a replacement battery, which according to Tesla's own figures cost just $130 per kWhr of capacity to manufacture. The figures just don't work when a comparison is made between production cost and parts supply costs, so someone is either making vast profits, or the production cost of the battery is more than Tesla claim it is. Hyundai Ioniq 5 Ultimate. The family car.
2009 Rimini Red SE TD4. Gone.
2006 Tonga Green i6 HSE. Gone.
Audi A5 convertible, my daily driver.
1972 Hillman Avenger GT, the project.

Or both Jules

So that’s how Musk gets to afford to indiscriminately pollute our night sky with his fecking satellites!