LOL!! EV range not only reduced in cold, ALSO reduced in HEAT!!
If you are so keen on owning one, go right ahead. Also consider not bragging about it to people that are NOT at all interested in them.
I said that fires in both iCE and EV cars are dangerous. I don't see that as bragging. When the subject of EVs comes up often someone will add to the conversation that EV cars are dangerous because they catch fire. I agree with that statement. But so are ICE cars.
I love ICE cars. I have spent my entire adult life working on, racing and building ICE engines. But I'm not going to let my love for these engines blind me from the fact that gasoline is dangerous and can kill you. It would be nice if neither Ice or ev had the potential to catch fire but for now that doesn't seem to be the case.
Even if someone will agree that gasoline is dangerous the conversion quickly shifts to "which is more dangerous?". I don't know the answer to that and I suppose it depends on the criteria used to define dangerous. Is it going to be number of people killed? Injured? dollars worth of damage? which is harder to put out?
If it turns out that one is only slightly safer than the other does it really matter?
If you're not interested in EV vehicles so be it, but you are taking time to read and post in a thread that is about EV vehicles.
Since we both are on the subject of EV'S, I think your idea of comparing number of cars bought vs number of cars burned is a smart way to look at the data. If i understand you correctly it would go like this.
Xx,*** ev vehicles were purchased in the usa in 2022. Xx ev vehicles caught fire. Equaling a 1 in xxxx chance of a fire.
X,***,*** ice vehicles were purchased in the usa in 2022. X,*** vehicles caught fire. Equaling a 1 in *** chance of a fire.