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Comment by mdorazio

These kinds of titles bother me because it's never clear if that's actually a lot or not. I did some basic research and it looks like there are about 180,000 car fires per year in the US on average, out of about 275 million registered vehicles. Or about 0.6 fires per 1000 cars.

According to Motortrend, there are around 250,000 Teslas registered in the US. The table on this site lists 96 Tesla fires. Or about 0.4 fires per 1000 cars.

So, your Tesla is actually less likely to catch on fire than a regular ICE car. It's just more likely to do so while parked in comparison to an ICE car that's more likely to do so due to bad/no maintenance.

parent mdorazio 4 years ago

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