Does anyone park their Mach E in their garage?

[Blue highway]

I look forward to the day we can trust AI search results.

All they do is just aggregate internet data without any fact checking or sourcing.

Just look at your numbers and then look at the numbers I got when searching the same thing:

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AI Overview
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In the United States, fire departments responded to an estimated annual average of 215,096 vehicle fires between 2018 and 2022.

Here's a more detailed breakdown:

• Total Vehicle Fires:
  US fire departments responded to an estimated annual average of 215,096 vehicle fires from 2018–2022.
• Passenger Vehicle Fires:
  There was an estimated annual average of 119,681 reported vehicle fires involving an automobile or passenger vehicle from 2018–2022. “
  
  
  
  But yes, even though it’s just an estimate from the fire departments, the 40,000 or so per year is nowhere near the millions it would be if the numbers for InsuranceEZ were remotely accurate.
  
  
  

NFPA is probably the most respected source for fire related things...

https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-...search/fire-statistical-reports/vehicle-fires

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[kens]

NFPA is probably the most respected source for fire related things...

https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-...search/fire-statistical-reports/vehicle-fires

Interesting read, I skimmed most of it, but here area few blurbs:

US fire departments responded to an estimated annual average of 215,096 vehicle fires in the United States from 2018–2022

The next one is from a section that breaks it down by vehicle type, so this would be the figure that would be of most concern to the average person;

There was an estimated annual average of 119,681 reported vehicle fires involving an automobile or passenger vehicle from 2018–2022

I find it this next one a bit amusing;

Of all the reported highway vehicle fires, 43 percent occurred on either Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.

43% is 3/7, so those days had the same average number of fires as every other day off the week. Seems like a weird way to say weekends don't have any more/less fires. That bullet point continues though;

Half of the total estimated civilian deaths resulted from these vehicle fire incidents.

So weekends do have a higher percentage of deaths for the same average number of fires. Probably the point of the bullet, I was just perplexed by the 43% mentioned above.

I also thought the author pointing out more vehicles fires happening during times of day when people are more likely to drive was amusing;

Highway vehicle fires where a factor contributing to ignition was a mechanical or electrical failure increased during morning commuting hours and peaked during afternoon commuting hours between 2 and 6 p.m.

Maintain your cars people;

Approximately three-quarters of the highway vehicle fires reported in the US in 2022 that were caused by mechanical or electrical failures involved vehicles with model years of 2011 or earlier

 

[Mach1E]

NFPA is probably the most respected source for fire related things...

https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-...search/fire-statistical-reports/vehicle-fires

I wasn’t questioning the source, just pointing out how AI used the same source in yours and my search but posted different numbers.

That and that even though I trust those numbers, they’re still just “estimates.”

The actual number of vehicle fires as well as the type of vehicle and cause just isn’t tracked.

Maybe a large insurance company could give a more realistic estimate based on their own insurance data, but there is no complete aggregate. Either way, the real number isn’t remotely close to the insuranceEZ nonsense. They would have us believe there are 12 million ICE fires per year in the US when the real number for all cars is closer to 40,000.

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