"That equates to 1 vehicle fire for every 20 million miles driven, compared to 1 fire in over 100 million miles for Tesla. This means you are 5 times more likely to experience a fire in a conventional gasoline car than a Tesla!"
- All Tesla cars are new and almost all of them have superior drivers.
- They drive their cars only on certain roads where as Gasoline cars are almost everywhere.
- You can not compare 100m sample set with 2 trillion size sample set.
And he forgot to mention many gasoline car fires aren't due to gasoline ignition, but electrical failures or material melting (plastic/glue), etc. The only common case of gas ignition is static electricity while filling up, f.ex. re-entering the car while wearing a sweater (you can even smoke a cigarette while filling up, it's the spark that's dangerous). Closed gasoline tanks have been safe for decades and contrary to what we see in movies it's close to impossible to fire them up even in serious car crashes, especially when they're full. There is even a method for extreme freezes (-30-40'c) to light a small fire under the tank to help the fuel flow to start the engine (especially needed for diesels and low quality gasoline) and the only fires due to that are when the stupid owner didn't realize his tank or other parts around are plastic (which's quite a modern day problem).
"That equates to 1 vehicle fire for every 20 million miles driven, compared to 1 fire in over 100 million miles for Tesla. This means you are 5 times more likely to experience a fire in a conventional gasoline car than a Tesla!"
- All Tesla cars are new and almost all of them have superior drivers.
- They drive their cars only on certain roads where as Gasoline cars are almost everywhere.
- You can not compare 100m sample set with 2 trillion size sample set.