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points by maxdo 1 day ago | 0 comments

Electrek is so boring , big news :

clickbait vs statistic:

Gasoline truck :

From 2018 to 2022, large trucks accounted for an estimated 15,462 fires, 46 deaths, 102 injuries, and $416 million in property damage each year. That works out to roughly 40 large-truck fires a day.

Overall, Gas cars ( regular size) , getting on fire more often vs electric cars.

[–] briffle 1 day ago

Kind of curious how many of those 15,462 fires shut down a freeway for 10 hours because they can't put it out?

[–] bradlys 1 day ago

This has a much bigger impact. The impact of having to reroute all of a major freeway's traffic is huge. Easily eating an hour from 100k+ people.

[–] maxdo 17 hours ago

incidents like that occurs every day, i myself stuck 3-4 month ago, by bmw caught on fire on the bridge. blocked traffic , fire trucks were not able to go through, etc.

I don't see news like that all over the internet.

[–] bradlys 13 hours ago

It's the time. 10 hours vs a couple hours.

[–] lr1970 18 hours ago

You should normalize by the number of trucks on the road in each category (gas/electric). Absolute number of fires make little sense if you have 1000 times more ICE trucks than electric ones.

[–] GrinningFool 1 day ago

On the other hand, there are million(s) of gasoline trucks on the road and thousands(?) of electric.

[–] maxdo 1 day ago

Yep and you got one incident , it’s a statistical mistake . Regular ev shows a much more clear picture .especially as technology matures , eg 2025/26

[–] cosmicgadget 1 day ago

Why did Electrek report on the Nikola thing? Trucks roll downhill all the time!!!

[–] boplicity 1 day ago

Per-mile stats is helpful info, not the overall totals.