Clean energy they said.

@BlueVeins True or subway trains.

@MalteseFalconPunch Exactly. It's a bit too much and there's more sensible equivalents out there.

@Elessar But petrol doesn't catch on fire on it's own. I'm glad nobody was inside anyway.

@PiecingBabyFaceTogether Neither does lithium, it's still constrained to the rules of chemistry and physics of course.

Faults that ignite a car spontaneously/unpredictably can happen in an electric one as much as a thermal one. I know people who parked their (regular) cars only to return to a pile of ashes or an active massive fire a few hours later. One in my building, even, a few years ago.

@Elessar I didn't say that can't happen but just the idea of too much batteries makes matters worse in case of a fire.
I heard of such accidents too in normal cars.