It was NOT an EV nor Chinese. It had a combustion engine and was made by a traditional (Non-chinese) brand.

"The driver (...) said she had just finished dropping off her grandchild at school and was driving home when she noticed smoke coming from the front of the vehicle. She immediately pulled over and asked for help."

It only got a few mentions in some local Pattaya news websites, and they had close to zero engagement. If this was a BYD/Geely/Deepal the headlines would've made it to Brazilian news at this point with millions of comments trashing everything about the car and where it comes from. Breakingnews alerts

But since it's a "reliable" brand with a combustion engine, it gets less attention than someone finding an albino bug when buying insects from a food cart.

Edited July 11Jul 11 by FarangFB

3 minutes ago, FarangFB said:

It was NOT an EV nor Chinese. It had a combustion engine and was made by a traditional (Non-chinese) brand.

"The driver (...) said she had just finished dropping off her grandchild at school and was driving home when she noticed smoke coming from the front of the vehicle. She immediately pulled over and asked for help."

It only got a few mentions in some local Pattaya news websites, and they had close to zero engagement. If this was a BYD/Geely/Deepal the headlines would've made it to Brazilian news at this point with millions of comments trashing everything about the car and where it comes from. Breakingnews alerts

But since it's a "reliable" brand with a combustion engine, it gets less attention than someone finding an albino bug when buying insects from a food cart.

In all the years I've driven, with hundreds of vehicles, mine, friends and for work, the only time I had a car catch fire was here. A 2013 Ford Fiesta, known for this as the dealers were supposed to have anyone who brought one into a dealership, to install a coolant sensor, as all it has it the indicator in the dash. They had a class action lawsuit back in 2017 where over 300 Fiestas, Focus and Ecosport owners filed for this and a bad transmission that would go out a lot of times. Too late for me but they won the lawsuit. I was driving a few hours one day and on the way home smoke also came from under the dash, so I pulled over and popped the hood. The wires were on fire so I ran to the nearest house and got a bucket of water and put it out. They denied everything so that was that.

11 minutes ago, FarangFB said:

It was NOT an EV nor Chinese. It had a combustion engine and was made by a traditional (Non-chinese) brand.

"The driver (...) said she had just finished dropping off her grandchild at school and was driving home when she noticed smoke coming from the front of the vehicle. She immediately pulled over and asked for help."

It only got a few mentions in some local Pattaya news websites, and they had close to zero engagement. If this was a BYD/Geely/Deepal the headlines would've made it to Brazilian news at this point with millions of comments trashing everything about the car and where it comes from. Breakingnews alerts

But since it's a "reliable" brand with a combustion engine, it gets less attention than someone finding an albino bug when buying insects from a food cart.

I carry a fire extinguisher in my trunk (boot) in Thailand and I drive a sedan with a V6 engine. I do this not because I worry about my engine catching on fire but in case I see an EV on fire somewhere and can possible help out. But maybe I am disillusioned because nothing will put out an EV fire once it starts.

A car caught fire, Amazing Thailand.

11 minutes ago, Screaming said:

I carry a fire extinguisher in my trunk (boot) in Thailand and I drive a sedan with a V6 engine. I do this not because I worry about my engine catching on fire but in case I see an EV on fire somewhere and can possible help out. But maybe I am disillusioned because nothing will put out an EV fire once it starts.

would you carry the fire extinguisher if your car was a 4 cylinder SUV ?

Just trying to understand the relevance of the V6 sedan.

Seen many a car fires in the past, all ICE, and only experienced one. Borrowed my brother's MGB, and carb had a malfunction & caught fire there. Thankfully not real damage, and just a carb rebuild solved it.

39 minutes ago, FarangFB said:

It was NOT an EV nor Chinese. It had a combustion engine and was made by a traditional (Non-chinese) brand.

"The driver (...) said she had just finished dropping off her grandchild at school and was driving home when she noticed smoke coming from the front of the vehicle. She immediately pulled over and asked for help."

It only got a few mentions in some local Pattaya news websites, and they had close to zero engagement. If this was a BYD/Geely/Deepal the headlines would've made it to Brazilian news at this point with millions of comments trashing everything about the car and where it comes from. Breakingnews alerts

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But since it's a "reliable" brand with a combustion engine, it gets less attention than someone finding an albino bug when buying insects from a food cart.

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So

what's your point.?

19 minutes ago, papa al said:

So

what's your point.?

If you have to ask ... nuff said 🙄

25 minutes ago, papa al said:

So

what's your point.?

It is Saturday. He doesn't go to EV church until tomorrow.

2 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

A car caught fire, Amazing Thailand.

2 hours ago, papa al said:

So

what's your point.?

Exactly. Zero relevance.

Now when that BYD caught fire (the battery was intact btw) that originated not at the car, but at some electrical aberration in the house installations, it became major news with hundreds of posts with loads of comments everywhere. Lots of investigations, BYD had to issue an statement, it probably made it to international news too.

And some comments here prove my point, many cases of ICE fires, none really get attention. For some reason the media and many people are just desperate to find ways to attack EVs.

It was a Toyota Cross according to this news article. There are also photos confirming that.

But there is no information if it's a hybrid or not.

As far as I know these Toyotas are built in Thailand.

Link to Pattaya News

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18i7r9e8fT/

There are still far more ICE cars/trucks/busses driving around, so a fire

is not special.

When an EV (of which there a far fewer of) , gets that unstoppable

fire , it is newsworthy.

Kind of same for the nat gass trucks/vans.