In Norway, where more than one third of cars on the road are electric, standard combustion engine vehicles catch fire around 5 or 6 times more often than EVs.

Emergency services were called to around 30 fires per 100,000 standard cars on the road per year during 2018–2022, compared with around 5 EV fires per 100,000 vehicles.

It should be noted that traditional fuels such as gasoline and diesel are extremely flammable but safety measures were put in place to lower the chance of fuel combustion happening outside of the engine itself.