How safe is battery powered transport?

A car transporter in the North Sea is on fire. One sailor has died. The cause of the fire is beleived to be a battery in one of the 25 electric cars on board.

A week or two ago, a family died when the battery in an electric bicycle burst into flames while charging. OK, peopel are advised not to charge batteries like this indoors and overnight, but if you need your bike for work and live in a flat, what do you do.

These are the stories of exploding batteries and fires that result that make the headlines. There are many more cases of batteries bursting into flames,including phone batteries and others items, that injure or frighten but do not kill

I am not advocating for keeping petrol cars, but I am worried by this massive blind rush to electric transport and the way we are ignoring the very real dangers that electric batteries present.