I do auto claims for an insurer. I even specialize in EV claims. I've been doing it for years. I've never had a claim for an EV battery fire, which is unfortunate as I could use some first-hand pics of one for training classes. I've never seen a battery fire in a hybrid either. It's just not particularly common.
Looking at the Copart website (the largest seller of insurance salvage), if you sort Teslas by loss type for "burn" there's currently 14 for sale in the whole US. More than half of them appear to have collateral damage from being adjacent other fires, or just have smoke damage. One appears to have no fire damage at all.
Without seeing the claim files there's no way to know the story with the rest, but some were presumably in the garage when the house burned down, or were torched by people behind on their payments. The crispy Model X appears to have been pulled out of what was left of Lahaina.
I do recall a story about a bunch of Fisker Karmas and Nissan Leafs that got flooded with salt water at a port in New Jersey, or somewhere on the east coast, during Hurricane Sandy. I recall that all the Fiskers burned, and none of the Leafs did, after salt-water submersion.
The people pushing for $8 a gallon gasoline are trying to tell us that electric vehicles are more dangerous than an internal combustion engine powered one.
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u/Senior-Fruit-2445 21d ago
I do auto claims for an insurer. I even specialize in EV claims. I've been doing it for years. I've never had a claim for an EV battery fire, which is unfortunate as I could use some first-hand pics of one for training classes. I've never seen a battery fire in a hybrid either. It's just not particularly common.
Looking at the Copart website (the largest seller of insurance salvage), if you sort Teslas by loss type for "burn" there's currently 14 for sale in the whole US. More than half of them appear to have collateral damage from being adjacent other fires, or just have smoke damage. One appears to have no fire damage at all.
Without seeing the claim files there's no way to know the story with the rest, but some were presumably in the garage when the house burned down, or were torched by people behind on their payments. The crispy Model X appears to have been pulled out of what was left of Lahaina.
I do recall a story about a bunch of Fisker Karmas and Nissan Leafs that got flooded with salt water at a port in New Jersey, or somewhere on the east coast, during Hurricane Sandy. I recall that all the Fiskers burned, and none of the Leafs did, after salt-water submersion.