Analysts from AutoInsuranceEZ examined data from the National Transportation Safety Board to track the number of car fires and compared it to sales data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
The result? Hybrid-powered cars were involved in about 3,475 fires per every 100,000 sold. Gasoline-powered cars, about 1,530. Electric vehicles (EVs) saw just 25 fires per 100,000 sold.?
That doesn’t sound right. Chevy had to warn Bolt owners to park in the street lest the vehicle set their house on fire.
Set your vehicle to a 90 percent state of charge limitation using Hilltop Reserve mode (for 2017-2018 model years) or Target Charge Level (for 2019-2022 model years) mode…
Charge your vehicle more frequently and avoid depleting their battery below approximately 70 miles (113 kilometers) of remaining range, where possible.
Park your vehicle outside immediately after charging and do not leave your vehicle charging indoors overnight.
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An update to instructions for recalled Bolts says to take their Bolts in to a Chevy dealer for a software update:
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The new software automatically sets the vehicle’s maximum state of charge to 80%, allowing owners to safely resume:
charging indoors overnight;
operating below 70 miles (113 km) of range, resulting in greater overall vehicle range compared to GM’s prior interim charging guidance; and
parking indoors after charging.
This software is not the final recall remedy and owners will be notified when battery modules are available for replacement.
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Lastly, despite the acknowledged, rare, battery manufacturing problem that can cause fires in Bolts, and the recall of 110,000 of them, I can only find reports of 20 fires, fewer than the 25/100,000 rate in the OP.
It may not “sound right” if you’re used to ingesting fossil fuel company BS. But, of course, most EVs in the US are Teslas, which rarely catch fire under any circumstances.