If you look at the posts and comments about electric car accidents here on Oegall, you will definitely see people defending electric cars. If you want to leave a comment defending electric vehicles on this article, please be sure to first mention whether you have an electric car or not. Because it seems biased to mean that electric vehicles are safer.
First of all, the trend of the times is toward electric vehicles. It is true that the motor has many advantages over the engine, whether it is a hydrogen car or something else, and the motor runs on electricity. Hydrogen cars also generate electricity, and electricity production also causes pollution, so Mani and others are excluded from this article.
I think it is still premature to compare actual accident rates. However, there are more cars with internal combustion engines, and accidents are caused more by human error than by car. However, there may be cases where electric vehicles rely on more driving assistance devices and cause accidents, but this is an exception.
The part that I take issue with is ‘fire’. In particular, I am talking about fires caused by accidents. Anyone who has experienced even a minor accident while driving a car will know this. When you look at it from the outside, it’s like, “Oh my gosh, I got hit a little bit.” When you get hit directly, you’re so dumbfounded that you can’t move your body easily. Oh my, I’ve failed, and I feel it in my body and mind and I wonder what I should do.
However, collision-type accidents rather than contact-type accidents are different. In some crashes, electric vehicles suddenly ignite due to battery impact and are inevitably burned down. I have never seen a news story about a driver being safely evacuated from an accident like this. Obviously, internal combustion engine vehicles subjected to the same impact are also susceptible to fire. In terms of ignition potential, I don’t know exactly, but I have no complaints even if there is more.
What I am dissatisfied with is the fire in electric cars. Aside from the fact that fires caused by battery ignition are especially difficult to put out, the speed of ignition is so different that the fire envelops the entire car in just 2 to 3 minutes, so why do cars with internal combustion engines keep trying to catch fire rather than catch fire? This is it.
Wouldn’t it be beneficial for them to keep being exposed and fixing problems? Or wouldn’t it be good for electric vehicle owners if the development and application of a device that can delay an accident and ignition is quickly accomplished? Why do you keep talking nonsense about internal combustion engine cars having spontaneous combustion? Your life is more important than the car you drive, aren’t you? Since cars with internal combustion engines also have a hard time escaping in the event of an accident, aren’t they cutting off seatbelts and developing and selling products that break windows? How long are you going to continue to advocate for electric car fires by saying that the same goes for internal combustion engine cars?
I’m frustrated so I’m writing this down.