EV fire cases rise with growing adoption
SINGAPORE - While there have been just a couple of fires involving electric vehicles here in the past two years, the low numbers represent a higher incidence rate than that of vehicles with other engine types – but this may be no cause for alarm.
Compared with their respective population here, EV fires averaged 2.45 per 10,000 vehicles, versus 0.42 for electric hybrids and 1.97 for combustion engine vehicles. Dr Zafar Momin, an adjunct associate professor at the National University of Singapore Business School, said: “Currently, the data on EVs in Singapore is very limited and it is hard to draw generalisations based on such a small sample size.”
General Insurance Association chief executive Ho Kai Weng said: “The sample of one and two is not statistically meaningful to draw conclusions. Insurers seem to be taking the view that they don’t have enough dataset for Singapore EVs for now for any sort of modelling.” “Water is the recommended medium for EV firefighting by manufacturers and organisations such as the US National Fire Protection Association,” the spokesman added.
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