Not always, a bad design/construction of a battery I wouldn't call it external factors. It doesn't need anything external to set on fire. But I agree that it's not common.

On the Diesel/petrol case.... it would need a leak to begin with and usually it's not s difficult thing to design a tank/engine without leaks. Let's be honest a battery is a more complex system to fuck up.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are there cases of EV batteries catching fire due to internal failings alone?

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, there have been recalls as well in some cased.

Here there is info about incidents, althought not only due to internal faillings alone, there are crashes and other stuff as well. The usual issue is that a thermal runaway happens.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicle_fire_incidents

[–] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine your car catching fire while you are pumping fuel...

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

I don't have to imagine, I saw it with my own eyes. Although it was a bike. Some random spark somewhere ignited the fumes, scary shit.