No, 5% of all cars are not catching fire every year:
look a wee bit questionable. Because, EVs and hybrids aside, if 1530 conventional internal-combustion cars are catching fire per 100,000 vehicles, that would equate to millions of car fires each year—as of 2020, there were roughly 270 million registered passenger vehicles in the US. Imagine that: You'd definitely know someone whose car caught fire. Maybe your car caught fire.
Maybe they’re comparing all fires with a single year of new-car sales? We'll let you know if we untangle this.To try to figure out where these numbers came from, we first contacted the National Transportation Safety Board, purported source for the car-fire statistics. And the NTSB's spokesman told us,"There is no NTSB database that tracks highway vehicle fires. We do not know what data AutoInsuranceEZ used for its research, but it did not come from an NTSB database.
And guess what? NHTSA doesn't collect fire data in this way, either. NHTSA—which we should call"the NHTSA," but that sounds weird—collects data on crashes but says that only about 5 percent of fires are crash-related. So they rely on other sources for information, like the National Fire Incident Reporting System . Which, in any case, doesn't categorize fires according to the type of vehicle powertrain.
At this point you may be asking whether your car is going to catch fire or what, so here's what we found. According to the
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