Combustion cars were started more than electric cars.

A wrong perception.

And if electric vehicles were as dangerous as they say, because almost all street fires involve combustion cars, because apparently videos of burning electric cars go viral in minutes and fuel the idea that batteries are bombs on wheels.

That perception already influences purchasing decisions, political debates, even emergency protocols, but after more than a decade of large-scale use, real data allows us to answer clearly, electric vehicles did turn on, but not more frequently than gasoline cars.

In reality, the opposite occurs, in the United States, data cited by the National Fire Protection Association show that fires in combustion vehicles happen practically all the time, on average one every two or 3 minutes, there are hundreds of thousands a year and it is true that there are more combustion cars than electric ones, but when adjusting for the number of vehicles in circulation, the difference is brutal, about 100 fires for every 100,000 combustion cars versus approximately 25 fires for every 100,000 electric.

The statistics are repeated in other latitudes

In Europe the pattern is repeated, in Sweden, one of the most electrified countries in the world, combustion vehicles were about 20 times more likely to catch fire than electric ones, in Australia, an independent database indicates that gasoline cars have a 50 to 100 times greater risk of fire. Even in Poland, where electric vehicles are still a minority, almost all fires recorded between 2020 and 2025 involved combustion engines, that is, in different countries, with different fleets, the result is the same, so why is the myth still alive? Because fires in gasoline cars are common and that is why they do not become news.

On the other hand, a fire in an electric car is rare, visually dramatic and technically different, Lion batteries can burn longer, re-ignite and require long operations from firefighters, which generates shocking images shared out of context that seem to confirm a greater danger, even when the numbers say otherwise.