Plug-in electric vehicle fire incidents | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-14

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00:01:55 1 Background
00:02:04 1.1 Frequency of vehicle fires
00:02:46 1.2 Thermal runaway
00:03:44 1.3 Non-automotive incidents
00:05:34 1.4 Safety guidelines for fire hazard
00:06:44 1.5 NHTSA research of fire risk
00:07:38 2 Electric vehicle incidents
00:07:48 2.1 A Future EV
00:08:55 2.2 Zotye M300 EV
00:10:36 2.3 Chevrolet Volt
00:13:33 2.4 Fisker Karma
00:16:05 2.5 BYD e6
00:16:58 2.6 Dodge Ram 1500 Plug-in Hybrid
00:18:21 2.7 Fires related to Hurricane Sandy flood
00:20:04 2.8 Mitsubishi i-MiEV and Outlander P-HEV
00:21:48 2.9 Tesla Model S and X
00:33:51 2.10 Nissan Leaf
00:34:12 2.11 VW e-Golf
00:34:39 2.12 Porsche Panamera E-Hybrid
00:34:59 3 See also



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Several plug-in electric vehicle fire incidents have taken place since the introduction of mass-production plug-in electric vehicles in 2010. Most of them have been thermal runaway incidents related to the lithium-ion batteries and have involved the Zotye M300 EV, Chevrolet Volt, Fisker Karma, Dodge Ram 1500 Plug-in Hybrid, Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid, Mitsubishi i-MiEV and Outlander P-HEV. Most hybrid electric vehicles available in the market today use nickel-metal hydride batteries which do not pose the same risk of thermal runaway as lithium-ion batteries.As of  February 2014, four fires after an impact have been reported associated with the batteries of plug-in electric cars. The first crash related fire was reported in China in May 2012, after a high-speed car crashed into a BYD e6 taxi in Shenzhen. Two incidents occurred with the Tesla Model S in October 2013, one when a Model S caught fire after the electric car hit metal debris on a highway in Kent, Washington, and another involving a loss of control and collision with a tree in Merida, Mexico. A Tesla Model S being driven on a highway near Murfreesboro, Tennessee caught fire in November 2013 after it struck a tow hitch on the roadway, causing damage beneath the vehicle.The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is conducting a study due in 2014 to establish whether lithium-ion batteries in plug-electric vehicles pose a potential fire hazard. The research is looking at whether the high-voltage batteries can cause fires when they are being charged and when the vehicles are involved in an accident. General Motors, Nissan and Tesla have published a guide for firefighters and first responders to properly handle a crashed electric-drive vehicle and safely disable its battery and other high voltage systems.