Spontaneous fire

[Teslaeata]

It really makes me nervous to park in my garage now! I have the same year and RWD.

Really, don’t let the worry of this ruine your life, the risk of fire is so minuscule it’s not worth the worry.

Is how I look at it at any rate.

You can let all sorts ruine your life and affect your mental health which is what a lot of people do these days.

The way I see it is f*** it, worry only about what you can manage and affect and everything else only when/if it happens.

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[Teslaeata]

Or…………

 

[Bobcat17]

It really makes me nervous to park in my garage now! I have the same year and RWD but extended range.

Hopefully you have a fire resistant steel door

It really makes me nervous to park in my garage now! I have the same year and RWD but extended range.

It really makes me nervous to park in my garage now! I have the same year and RWD but extended range.

Hopefully you have a steel fire resistant door if your garage is attached to your house. I wonder if your fire is a fluke or if there are more fire occurrence

 

[Aza]

Hopefully you have a fire resistant steel door


Hopefully you have a steel fire resistant door if your garage is attached to your house. I wonder if your fire is a fluke or if there are more fire occurrence

That wasn’t mine.

 

[Maquis]

It really makes me nervous to park in my garage now! I have the same year and RWD but extended range.

Then you should never park any car in your garage.

 

[DYohn]

Don't leave your vapes in the glovebox.

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

It really makes me nervous to park in my garage now! I have the same year and RWD but extended range.

Park nothing in your garage then. This incident does not appear to be related to the HVB, and any maker and model of car would be vulnerable to the same possible fire. Further, ICE vehicles are statistically more likely to catch fire.

 

[Mach-Lee]

There is a relay box in the passenger fender called the BCMB, it provides 12V power to the various EV modules. Nothing particularly high power though. There is also the BCM (body control module) in the passenger footwell that is the main 12V distribution point for lighting and body functions.

A rodent chewing on wires causing a short is probably a pretty good guess. In theory, fuses should blow before a fire starts, but in some rare situations, the current may be just below the threshold and cause prolonged heating.

I’m not too concerned about this since it’s likely a one-of-a-kind situation.

 

[New2EV]

 

[Mach1E]

I don’t blame you for not knowing this, but this “autoinsuranceEZ” thing about EV fires is completely fabricated BS.

Just look at the numbers and think about it.

3500 car fires per 100,000 vehicle sales?

There are about 300,000 cars in my town. You would notice if over 11,000 of them caught fire.

There is no official source that tracks vehicle fires nor the source of them. But we do know that autoinsuranceEZ is definitely False.

More details from a legitimate source that questioned those silly figures:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a40163966/cars-catching-fire-new-york-times-real-statistics/


No, Millions of Cars Are Not Catching Fire Every Year
A New York Times story about U.S. car fires references a study that gets the frequency wrong by a factor of at least 60.
By Ezra DyerPublished: Jun 2, 2022


You don't have to be a professional statistician to notice that these AutoInsuranceEZ numbers look a wee bit questionable. Because, EVs and hybrids aside, if 1530 conventional internal-combustion cars (aka, "most of the cars") are catching fire per 100,000 vehicles, that would equate to millions of car fires each year—as of 2020, there were roughly 270 million registered passenger vehicles in the US. Imagine that: You'd definitely know someone whose car caught fire. Maybe your car caught fire. It might be on fire right now! "Oh, another car fire," you'd say, driving past the third conflagration of your morning commute.
To try to figure out where these numbers came from, we first contacted the National Transportation Safety Board, purported source for the car-fire statistics. And the NTSB's spokesman told us, "There is no NTSB database that tracks highway vehicle fires. We do not know what data AutoInsuranceEZ used for its research, but it did not come from an NTSB database." They suggested that perhaps the study authors confused the NTSB with NHTSA, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. So we contacted NHTSA.

And guess what? NHTSA doesn't collect fire data in this way, either. NHTSA—which we should call "the NHTSA," but that sounds weird—collects data on crashes but says that only about 5 percent of fires are crash-related. So they rely on other sources for information, like the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS). Which, in any case, doesn't categorize fires according to the type of vehicle powertrain.

 

[JohnFoxeSheets]

There is a relay box in the passenger fender called the BCMB, it provides 12V power to the various EV modules. Nothing particularly high power though. There is also the BCM (body control module) in the passenger footwell that is the main 12V distribution point for lighting and body functions.

A rodent chewing on wires causing a short is probably a pretty good guess. In theory, fuses should blow before a fire starts, but in some rare situations, the current may be just below the threshold and cause prolonged heating.

I’m not too concerned about this since it’s likely a one-of-a-kind situation.

The OP is in Texas, though I don't know where the owner of the screenshot post is located, nor how recent the fire was. But it can get frighteningly hot in Texas (and much of the South), so perhaps that could have contributed to the fire. Ironically, if that is the case, it might have been better if the car had been parked indoors...

 

[Shepherd]

Don't leave your vapes in the glovebox.

The passenger floor is charred and appears the flame went up behind the glovebox. Purses and backpacks are commonly put on the passenger floor. I agree it could have been a vape or other battery powered thing like a power bank or laptop.

 

[NorthlandPhil]

I added a heat detector in my garage when I added the EV charger. Mostly because I was kicking myself for not adding it back when I remodeled and I really should have done it. That is, long before I had an EV. So, because I had to cut holes through drywall, etc., and as long as I was at it, it was a convenient time to do it.

EV or not, it's a good idea. The earlier warning of a fire would likely give extra minutes to get out of the house safely.

 

[Aza]

The OP is in Texas, though I don't know where the owner of the screenshot post is located, nor how recent the fire was. But it can get frighteningly hot in Texas (and much of the South), so perhaps that could have contributed to the fire. Ironically, if that is the case, it might have been better if the car had been parked indoors...

The Mach E owner lives in Iowa and it happened yesterday

 

[ChrisO]

The thing about “news” is it is the exception that makes headlines. Once it is common place you don’t hear about it anymore.

Everyone should be aware by now that ICE cars have more fires than EVs but no one is reporting about them and saying I‘m wondering if I should park my car in my garage.
This fire for example wasn’t with the battery and as such is no different than what would happen with a ICE car.

There is a reason that the building codes have firewalls between garages and the rest of the house, but the average person just doesn’t think about it.

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