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Originally Posted by Bill14564
It will take more than the ZERO news stories about electric cart fires in the Villages for me to believe that cart fires happen frequently.
I remember two news stories about cart fires in the Villages last year. If there were more, find a third and I will accept that there were three stories about cart fires.
I do not remember any stories about electric cart fires in the Villages last year. There has been speculation and accusation, even going so far as to ignore the information in the reporting about gasoline running down the road and STILL claiming it was a lithium cart fire.
Lithium cart fires likely do happen. Some don't get reported in any papers, I don't read all the papers, and I could have missed one. But there sure are not a lot of lithium cart fires and not more than gasoline cart fires, at least here in the Villages.
As far as believing the eyewitness... I believe there were fire engines and sirens which is what the eyewitness reported. I believe the garage door was cut from that home and that there is obvious smoke damage to the automobile. I believe the cart in the picture is likely an Evolution lithium cart. But I do not know if the lithium battery was the cause of the fire or even involved in the fire.
If the lithium battery was involved in this fire, then it is clear that it did not cause the catastrophic damage that is demonstrated in the YouTube and Tik-Tok videos.
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The recent golf cart fires here in the Villages were gas carts. In most of the cases the owner fills up the cart with gas and either they spill some on the engine or they don't tighten the gas cap properly and as they drive off, gas spills on the engine and catches fire. We spoke to the fire department chief and they have only put out gas cart fires recently, no electric carts. No this isn't to say that electric carts and cars or even hybrid cars with batteries can't catch fire but it's very rare. More likely, people by these lithium starter batteries from Amazon, who knows where they were made, and these for sure raise the risk of fire if not used properly.