What sparked this restrictive idea?
, or 2 percent. If the number of fires involving hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and EVs was proportional to their share of the national fleet, that would mean they accounted for just 2,347 of those 117,370 fires per year. Put another way,Do the math, and it means gas and diesel-powered passenger vehicles caught fire 50 times more often than hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and EVs combined between 2013 and 2017, and that's again assuming an equal incidence rate among those vehicle populations.
Note that this includes all hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and EVs and not just the ones using lithium-ion batteries. The NCCC ban explicitly targets lithium-ion batteries and not the nickel-metal hydride batteries used in most hybrids until recently .This hasty lithium-ion battery ban from the NCCC, then, appears to be based on the misperception of the danger of vehicles with lithium-ion batteries.
The NCCC ban also ignores the fact buildings catch fire far more often than vehicles do. Vehicles of all types accounted for just 16 percent of the 1.3 million fires that occurred in the U.S. in 2018 according to the NFPA. That means the structures the NCCC is requiring E-Rays to park 30 feet away from are more than 6 times as likely to catch fire than a gas-powered car and more than 550 times as likely to catch fire than a vehicle with a lithium-ion battery.
Because of this, it can take far more water to put out a fire with a lithium-ion battery than a typical car fire. If the NCCC's justification for its ban is in part due to the additional training and resources necessary to put out a fire involving a lithium-ion battery, it would be more understandable.
No information on NCCC's website or in its rulebook or insurance documents makes any mention of fire fighter safety, though, and the 30-foot rule appears to instead be predicated on the misconception that vehicles with lithium-ion batteries are more likely to spontaneously combust than gas-powered vehicles when the opposite is true, and by a large degree.
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