DaveinOlyWA
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EG is flammable but not volatile. It will burn but usually needs to evaporate the water out first. This is easy to do with the high heat an engine produces. So what happens is battery pack compromised, starts fire, evaporates water in EG which simply adds fuel to the fire.
Ignoring all that, we have several Tesla fires and yeah, most are due to extreme events and but next to nothing involving LEAFs including one car burnt to the ground in a wild fire with nothing but the battery compartment remaining and still intact.
So we can say "Hey, LEAFs have simply not had any extreme events" which some will believe or at least adopt. I choose not to.
So its either the batteries or the coolant or a combination of both. I also need to remind you that a handful of Tesla fires happened during events that were not all that extreme.
Ignoring all that, we have several Tesla fires and yeah, most are due to extreme events and but next to nothing involving LEAFs including one car burnt to the ground in a wild fire with nothing but the battery compartment remaining and still intact.
So we can say "Hey, LEAFs have simply not had any extreme events" which some will believe or at least adopt. I choose not to.
So its either the batteries or the coolant or a combination of both. I also need to remind you that a handful of Tesla fires happened during events that were not all that extreme.