@jillesvangurp unfortunately your comment is typical of the lack of understanding around fire risk in vehicles. Gasoline vapor burns relatively cool in comparison to a trapped energy runaway thermal battery event. A fully charged battery contains an immense amount of trapped energy which once compromised has to escape. Gasoline doesn't burn unless super heated, while diesel doesn't catch fire at all which is one of the many reasons it is used in commercial vehicles.
The NFSA video I linked to goes into BEV realities in some detail.
Tell that to the hundreds of people that die in ice car vehicle fires every year. It's not a minor risk if hundreds of people die. Versus almost none in EV related fires.
The reality is that people die every day in ice vehicle fires (petrol and diesel). It's not a hypothetical thing where you get to chin stroke and muse about the risks of petrol or diesel catching fire. It's happening. Every day. It's one of the most common reasons the fire trucks have to go somewhere actually.
A combustion engine is a wonderful thing where things get compressed, heated, etc. intentionally in order to combust the fuel. Diesel has a higher ignition temperature. That's all. The famous let's throw a match into the fuel works less well and is indeed a nice party trick. But it burns just fine once it gets going. Happens all the time. Just google for truck and bus fires.
The reality with EV fires is that:
1) they are rare compared to ice car vehicle fires (it's not even close; think orders of magnitude)
2) they burn quite slowly instead of explosively.
3) most of the incidents don't involve casualties and mainly involve property damage instead
