02.1 EV battery fire data

02.1 EV fires - current data

How many electric vehicles catch fire? EV FireSafe's global data

EV FireSafe provides regular overview breakdowns of verified electric vehicle battery fires in various countries and globally.

Important: The information provided here is a foundational dataset and does not represent the total number of EV battery fires globally.

We continue to receive support from the Australian Department of Defence (Defence Science & Technology Group), and are therefore able to provide comparisons on cause, circumstance, ignition, vapour cloud explosion & connection to charging.

Methodology, reporting & use of global EV fire numbers

These electric vehicle battery fire incidents overviews are provided in good faith - please see our legal statement here.

Please note our research is not exhaustive & cannot hope to capture every incident globally. Incidents captured on our database are sourced & verified from online source, interviews, first hand accounts, videos, images, academic & fire agency reports & online training.

If you have an incident involving an electric vehicle you'd like to report to us, please head to our Report an EV Fire page & thank you for supporting our research.

Want to quote our work? Our team have worked hard to develop this & will take necessary steps to assert our ownership of our intellectual property.

If you'd like to use resources or information from the EV FireSafe website, please contact our Project Director via email at emma@evfiresafe.com

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