A couple terror attacks using the batteries in an EV would quickly kill adoption in the US
The general public isn’t informed enough to realise that there are several different battery chemistries, with some of them like LFP only providing minimal smoke when drilled into. Even the more volatile types are drastically less likely to be involved in vehicle fires than ICE cars.
In the UK we recently had a car park fire at an airport that everyone started blaming EVs for and it turned out to be a straight (non-hybrid) diesel car.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-46290095
And research into car park fires in post-EV times may also not support that theory:
https://www.ri.se/sites/default/files/2020-12/FRIC%20D1.2-20...
> Electric vehicles: Observations during the fire indicate that electric vehicles did not contribute to the fire development beyond what is expected from conventional vehicles.
https://twitter.com/andysoullinux/status/1712232395049422942
Still much much easier.
We can’t make blanket statements with EVs which was the whole point of my original post.
Edit: from the article:
> Fire crews were on scene within four minutes, and the fire was put out within an hour.
Pretty sure the cybertruck is NMC too, and this is in addition to the fuel canisters and explosives in the vehicle.