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Originally Posted by Bill14564
Yep, saw that one. Seems BMW has a problem with cars catching fire, but long before they were electric.
- - The article was from 2018 when I suspect there were not too many (any?) BMW EVs
- - The article mentions the vehicle's engine, not battery or motor
- - The article talks about 40 cars catching fire in the last five years which would go back to 2013 when I'm sure there were not a lot of BMW EVs
- - The article mentions a 2017 recall of about one million vehicles for fire-related issues - there is no way BMW has 1 million EVs on the road in 2017
Post #15 seems to want to imply that the recent Wesley Chapel fire was caused by lithium batteries. Nothing in the available reporting on that fire gives any evidence of that. Previous reporting on BMW fires indicates that BMW has had an issue since well before they were using lithium batteries.
The recent fire *might* have been caused by the batteries but we don't know that yet. |
That is how I see it. Lithium batteries were most likely not the cause of the BMW fires. Have to wait for the investigation though.