RE:This quote scares the H E L L out of me [ car makers ] It scares the HELL out of you because you are in love with your stock, and looking for reasons to validate the last ~8 years or so you've been invested. Driving around with a tank of explosive gas is 10 times more likely to be engulfed in a fire that with a battery.
"Electric vehicles are not more likely than gas-powered cars to catch fire in crashes. Tesla, which makes more than half of the electric vehicles sold in the U.S., reports five car fires per billion miles driven, compared with 55 fires per billion miles driven in gas-powered cars."