Gasolined Powered BMW Catches Fire in Seongnam

Important to note, on a ICE car the doors don’t automatically lock so you burn inside, like is a feature of EV cars. BMWs catching fire was a thing a few years ago, convinced it was an insurance fraud/get out of car payments they couldn’t afford scam…but who knows.

South Korea: (Data from Grok AI, so it might be biased)

EVs in Parking Garages:

South Korea has seen an increase in EV fires, especially highlighted by incidents in 2024. One significant event involved a Mercedes-Benz EQE catching fire in an underground parking garage in Incheon, damaging around 140 cars.

In 2023, there were 72 fires involving EVs, up from 24 in 2021. Out of 130 EV fire incidents over the past three years, 36 occurred while the vehicles were parked, which includes fires in parking garages.

The rate of fires per 10,000 EVs was 1.3 in 2023, compared to 1.9 for ICE vehicles, indicating that EVs are still less likely to catch fire despite the increase.

ICE Vehicles in Parking Garages:

There’s no specific breakdown for ICE vehicle fires in parking garages, but general data from the Seoul Metropolitan Fire & Disaster Headquarters indicates that between 2013 and 2022, 1,399 fires occurred in underground parking lots, with 43.7% attributed to vehicles, of which 53% were electrical source related in car fires.

For some reason, Grok was unable to tell me what percentage of ICE fires were on cars less than 5 years old, like the majority of EVs.

Here’s another AI-created YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch38_WNDD6I