Greentech Mobility: Do electric cars actually burn cars more often than combustion engines?

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Green Media Tip: The catastrophic fire on board the car freighter “Fremantle Highway” has brought the debate about the safety of electric cars back into focus.

Professor Maximilian Fichtner, Director of the Helmholtz Institute for Electrochemical Energy Storage, explains why e-cars do not burn more than conventional cars, what influence the age of e-cars has in fires and what role batteries could play in the freighter fire.

posts at ZDFtoday and in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.