Battery fire in electric cars after a collision

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Posted by Kiwi Bloke on 29/06/2022 11:40:25:

Is it noteworthy that many of the hybrids place fuel tank and battery adjacent to each other? Risk multiplication?

More dangerous than the in-tank electric fuel pump with loose wiring and connectors all submerged in petrol at all times that is standard in most cars today? Seems counter-intuitive but they tell us it's not dangerous. Although, there are 100,000 car fires a year in the UK, most of them petrol cars. They never say exactly what causes them though.

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