Electric vehicles aren’t the only source of fire risk during a disaster. Gasoline-powered cars can, and often do , catch fire as well. But electric vehicle fires need to be dealt with differently.

County Fire Chief Tom Coe said the electric fire truck, ... “This is not simply a middle- or an upper-middle-class effort,” Pinsky said. “If we’re going to move towards clean energy, ...

A fire on a cargo ship carrying electric vehicles that contain highly flammable lithium-ion batteries was burning off Alaska’s coast on Wednesday night, more than 24 hours after it broke out ...