• _stranger_@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    one sets itself on fire over and over thousand of times a minute, using the explosive force to spin wheels.

    The other doesn’t.

    They are dissimilar in this regard.

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      4 hours ago

      Of course, but we’re talking safety here. The claim is that ICE vehicles are less safe than EVs. I’m wondering how that is since all of the safety features will be essentially the same.

      If you’re saying one has a higher risk of fire injury I’d love to see the stats on that as fires for either type are pretty rare.

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        2 hours ago

        Every study has concluded that EV’s catch fire at a rate orders of magnitude lower than ICE vehicles. That’s a rate, so it takes into account the disparity in numbers of vehicles between ice and ev’s

        It’s pretty easy to look up, even the slop machines give the right answer.