Your plug-in vehicle doesn’t have to be moving or even turned on. Google tells me there are an estimated eight million plug-ins in the US. From The Washington Post…
They were told to park outside. Then their cars burst into flames. https://archive.li/7qhZe#selection-305.0-305.66 That recall, covering more than 320,000 Jeep Wranglers and Grand Cherokees, notified owners about a fire risk so severe that they were “advised to park outside and away from structures and not to charge their vehicles until the remedy is completed.”
These “park outside” warnings have surged in recent years, growing from rare occurrences to include millions of vehicles.
An estimated 3.2 million vehicles nationwide currently have an outstanding “park outside” recall, according to vehicle history provider Carfax, which described the surging numbers as “concerning.”
There are 297.5 million motor vehicles in the US. So this is a problem for about 1% of them?
It’s also interesting that most “park outside” recalls involve vehicles with internal combustion engines. I thought that it was EVs that were catching fire.
True enough. The vast majority of US vehicles are ICE.
“NHTSA has issued 93 “park outside” recalls since 2021, according to a Post analysis. Nearly half of them — 44 in all — applied to vehicles exclusively with conventional internal-combustion engines, while 38 recalls were just for EVs or hybrids.”
Not clear, but it looks like 46% of the vehicle models covered were plug-ins, which is an over-representation.
That likely an underestimate in that the average age of a car on the road is some 12 years, and the article mentioned the problem is much more common in newer cars because of their electronics.
BIL works at Oak Ridge Labs dealing with design/building super computers. They have not allowed plug-in/EVs to park in the garage for at least 8 years.