Many EV skeptics emphasize the spontaneous combustion threat of electric vehicles. Unfortunately, oil is added to the nomen and the fire in cases like the one that happened a few days ago. Another electric Porsche caught fire. Unfortunately, the driver of the vehicle died.
The Porsche electric fire case under consideration is different from those in which cars caught fire from spontaneous combustion. According to the Android.com.pl portal, there is no spontaneous combustion here. The vehicle is a Porsche Taycan EV. As the portal emphasizes, in the case of this manufacturer, we can talk about a black series, since over the past four months a new car has been ignited for the third time. Considering the number of Porsche electric vehicles sold, the problem seems to be a serious one.
TikTok posted a video of the car burning:
Was it spontaneous combustion?
According to media reports, this time the fire was not caused by spontaneous combustion. The fire started as a result of an accident - a collision with an energy-intensive barrier on the road, near a shopping center.
Information provided by eyewitnesses of the incident indicates that the blow was not strong at all. Despite this, the car immediately caught fire. Passers-by tried to put out the fire and pull the driver out of the car. However, they failed to open the car door. As a result of the accident, the 30-year-old driver of the car was burned alive. The official cause of the car’s fire is unknown.
Problem with electric Porsche?
As the portal emphasizes, before the release of a new model on the market, test cars undergo a series of tests during which their safety is checked. They are designed to eliminate any design flaws. Most likely, the problem concerned this particular instance, or rather its battery. It is possible that the railing crash was so unfortunate that it was enough to damage the battery.
Does this mean that all electric vehicles are on fire? Oh no. It should be remembered that such cases represent only a per thousand of the total number of electric vehicles circulating around the world. Also, it’s worth emphasizing that internal combustion vehicles also burn - and probably much more often than electric vehicles. However, it is mentioned much less frequently. And the atmosphere around the fires of electric vehicles is heated by skeptics of the transition to full electric mobility.
Source: Wprost
