People kind of got a lot of stuff twisted in their heads about electric motors always being safer than internal combustion engines -- which, sure, there's good reasons for But there's no 100% safe way to store the same amount of potential energy in the same spacehttps://twitter.com/iridienne/status/1384023067286917121 …
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Well, yes, definitely. The thing about gasoline-powered cars is that the standards are such -- after DECADES of improvement, obviously -- that it is *virtually impossible* to make one actually catch fire under any kind of reasonable conditions (including in a crash).
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A huge amount of effort has gone into safety standards to make it virtually impossible for lithium-ion batteries at the scale used to power laptops and cell phones from catching fire (though some still slip through the cracks)
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