BYD issues in China

[timeades]

I don’t know who you are talking to daily to get those remarks, but I have never had anyone say anything remotely about catching fire. Most people will ask about range and charging and cost - but daily saying they are dangerous and catch fire - really?

London Boroughs are becoming very polarised at the moment. There's an increase of ill feeling toward EV's and their owners, along with anger at ULEZ, LTN's, CAN's, cycle lanes etc. For some reason EV owners are seen as the ones driving the changes. We've also been a recent spate of people unplugging charging EV's during the night. Go onto any of the local or community discussion forums as either an EV enthusiasts, owner or cyclist and be ready with the flame proof trousers

 

[timeades]

This video shows issues with BYD electric vehicles in China rather dramatically. Has anyone heard of anything similar with MG’s.
All sounds a bit concerning.

Interesting comeback to the video

 

[tsedge]

OK so for the American market in 2021the figures were:

'AutoInsuranceEZ studied the frequency of fires—from all causes, including collisions—in automobiles in 2021. It found that hybrid vehicles, which have an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, had the most fires per 100,000 vehicles (3475), while vehicles with just an internal combustion engine placed second (1530 per 100,000). Fully electric vehicles had the fewest: 25 per 100,000. These findings were based on data from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.'

UK is a bit more difficult to find accurate figures as UK seems to lump all EV's together, hybrid, pure EV's, electric scooters etc.

'Data obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request revealed that in 2019 the London Fire Brigade dealt with 54 electric vehicle fires compared with 1,898 petrol and diesel fires.

Vehicle registration numbers from the Department for Transport (DfT) show there are 50,000-plus plug-in cars licensed in the capital out of a total 4.63 million licensed cars.

Looking at the London Fire Brigade data, that would suggest an incident rate of 0.04% for petrol and diesel car fires, while the rate for plug-in vehicle is more than double at 0.1%. So far this year, there have been 1,021 petrol and diesel fires and 27 EV fires in the capital.'

That's the effect of lumping in hybrids under 'plugin', given their additional complexity, no surprise if they are more fire prone than pure EVs.