When a battery/electric car catches fire, the news are heavily amplified. The fire is spectacular, true, and there is no way to put it out but to wait for the car to consume.

But the reality is that the burning rate of ICE cars is a lot higher than electric cars (only electric, that don't carry a heat source along the battery), by far: https://www.motor.com/2026/07/ev-fires-vs-ice-fires-myth-vs-...

Same tune for diesel generators: they catch fire, fumes must be correctly ventilated or you get a flammable atmosphere, rooms where they are installed must be seriously protected against fire hazards (https://global-generators.com/blog/diesel-generator-fire-saf...). But when one catches fire, only local news report it, nobody outside town ever get notice of it, and people tend to think they are 100% fireproof. Meanwhile, a big lithium battery catches fire in California, and the news might even go global.