{"id":153546,"date":"2022-01-13T00:48:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T23:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electrek.co\/?p=220023"},"modified":"2023-08-28T15:15:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T15:15:40","slug":"government-data-show-gasoline-vehicles-are-up-to-100x-more-prone-to-fires-than-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/government-data-show-gasoline-vehicles-are-up-to-100x-more-prone-to-fires-than-evs\/","title":{"rendered":"Government data show gasoline vehicles are up to 100x more prone to fires than EVs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.evearly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/government-data-show-gasoline-vehicles-are-up-to-100x-more-prone-to-fires-than-evs.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWhere there\u2019s smoke, there\u2019s fire. Unless it pertains to EV fires, as that\u2019s more smoke and mirrors. There is an ongoing flow of misinformation publicized by the less informed (or downright malicious) purporting that electric vehicles and their battery chemistry are more prone to fires than their gasoline counterparts. Aside from the obvious argument that gasoline vehicles operate via combustion, a new study shows how much more prevalent gas vehicle fires are compared to EVs. <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2022\/01\/12\/government-data-shows-gasoline-vehicles-are-significantly-more-prone-to-fires-than-evs\/\" target='bwindow' rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/government-data-show-gasoline-vehicles-are-up-to-100x-more-prone-to-fires-than-evs\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253585,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153546\/revisions\/253585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}