That sounds good, i bet most people arent paying that!
Plus if you have to charge up at a public charging point (especially on the motorway), you wont be paying 0.09 ! To be fair though, I have no idea about Norway's charging points!
In Norway, electricity is about 0.1 to 0.15 pr KWh, but it varies
a lot from hour to hour, day to day, season to season. Public fast chargers are easily 5 times as much.
Unfortunately the data here is somewhat flawed, as the age of the vehicles isn't taken into consideration - the majority of BEVs are under 5 years old (most under 3 years old, due to the recent acceleration in take up). So the stats are essentially comparing the risk of all ICE vehicles (many older cars) vs a relatively new cohort of BEVs. Be interested to see the vehicle age adjusted stats.
And I'm confused by the reference to fire brigades - certainly anything I've seen in the UK press recently indicates that emergency services are concerned with how difficult BEVs are to extinguish compared to traditional vehicles. Maybe Norway is better equipped to deal with BEV fires?
The frequency of fires in vehicles does not go up much with age, and only up to about 10 years of age. Older than that, they burn less. Average age of cars in Norway is about 10 years.
Most fires start because of faults with the normal 12v electric system. That does not normally make the main battery catch fire in an EV, but it does sometimes make the fuel of an ice vehicle catch fire. The EV battery is very well encased and protected, the fuel system is not.
The fire fighters
are worried about fires that can't be put out, if they are in tight spaces like ferries and parking houses, but such fires are very infrequent. The fire brigade will bring along a "garbage container" and lift the whole car into it and submerge it for 48 hours. Otherwise soak with water continuously to keep the temps down. Even turn the car over in order to cool the battery better/easier.
There was a big fire in a parking house at the Stavanger airport, where several EVs burnt among the about 400 cars. The fire made parts of the building collapse, but the EV batteries were not a problem. The fire started in a diesel car.
I do not advocate that EVs are the only way forward, or that ICE should be banned, or anything of that sort. But it is not correct that EVs are a lot more dangerous to handle or use for either the owner, or the fire fighters, or the rest of the society. As always, it depends on the individual case/situation, not so much whether EV or ICE.
