I'll say it again, no-one is saying that internal combustion engine vehicles don't catch fire! 
I get that you and cravenhaven are obvious EV fans but denying the issues that come with EVs won't change the fact that when EV vehicles do burn they are a lot harder to extinguish than ICE vehicles and that fact is being recognised worldwide...
I dont deny the issues that come with EV's anymore than I deny the issues with petrol bikes/cars/lawnmowers, or gas stoves/HWS etc. Its the extreme hysteria surrounding it that is disturbing. This post promotes that hysteria, when the risk of such events occuring are minimal.
A couple of years ago a few caravans blew up because the aluminium pipes in the gas stove fractured. There was a mad scrabble as the manufacturer tried to recover from the fallout, but the government regulators were as much at a loss as to what to do as the stove manufacturer. They cant ban gas in caravans, there would be an uproar, but it's downright dangerous. And the injuries from an explosion are normally fatal, or at least very serious.
The stove in my caravan suffered broken pipes twice on my last trip, because they're aluminium and fracture easily in a vibratory environment. Luckily no explosions occured because the gas monitor worked in the first instance, but we had wild flames in the second.
I'll be swapping over to all electric based on Lithium batteries as soon as I can.
The biggest problems with Lithium battery management is not the technology, it's the lack of attention by fire and emergency services worldwide to have ever bothered to address it. Now it is being addressed by everyone running around trying to ban it or otherwise decry its use.
Furthermore, all the EV fires I've seen reported have been intense, but not explosive, unlike petrol fires. Very few people are killed in fires involving EV's because they have plenty of time to exit the vehicle.
And now they want to promote Hydrogen vehicles!!.
