Electric cars are too dangerous!
They keep catching on fire, often with tragic consequences. They should be banned and never used again.
Tesla alone has accounted for 2 to 3 fires every year for the past five years. If all fires from all electric cars are accounted for, that number could be 10 or higher per year. (Precise figures are not available, as some countries have poor record keeping.)
As of 2019, electric cars represent only about 1 in 250 vehicles worldwide, or about 0.4%. Imagine what would happen if ALL vehicles on the road were electric. That could lead to 10 incidents times 250, or 2500 car fires per year.
Compare that to the number of fires per year we currently experience with gasoline-burning, combustion-engine vehicles: 170,000. In the United States alone. A decade ago, the average number of car fires in the United States was closer to 280,000 per year.
Which means… a gas car is about 100 times more likely to catch fire than an electric.
(Maybe more, given that the data here compares international statistics to national statistics with a bias toward gas cars.)
So all gas cars should be banned and never used again.