{"id":16039,"date":"2023-10-31T09:16:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T22:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=16039"},"modified":"2024-10-18T17:52:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T06:52:42","password":"","slug":"are-electric-vehicle-fires-common","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/docs\/are-electric-vehicle-fires-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Are electric vehicle fires common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electric vehicle battery fires are very rare. Research by Australian company EV FireSafe has been able to verify approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evfiresafe.com\/ev-battery-fire-overview\">511 EV battery fires globally since 2010 (as of June 2024).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedriven.io\/2023\/05\/16\/petrol-and-diesel-cars-20-times-more-likely-to-catch-fire-than-evs\/\">Data from Sweden<\/a> suggests the likelihood of an EV fire is around 20 times less likely than a petrol\/diesel vehicle fire, after accounting for the differences in the market share of each vehicle type.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Australia, there are only six verified EV battery fires in road-registered passenger vehicles; one was caused by arson, three were due to an external fire consequently setting the cars alight, one because it was involved in a crash, and one down to hitting road debris which penetrated the battery.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric vehicle battery fires are very rare. Research by Australian company EV FireSafe has been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[108],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-16039","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-safety-maintenance"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"year_month":"2026-05","word_count":112,"total_views":"0","reactions":{"happy":"3","normal":"1","sad":"6"},"author_info":{"name":"Bailey Sievewright","author_nicename":"bailey","author_url":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/author\/bailey\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Safety &amp; Maintenance","term_url":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/docs-category\/safety-maintenance\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/16039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16039"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/16039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18654,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/16039\/revisions\/18654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=16039"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=16039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}