This is actually, inadvertently, a great example showing how much more dangerous gas vehicles are. Gas cars are 61x more likely to catch fire than EVs. So next time someone says EVs catch fire, show them this clip…

So we've seen EV's catching fire while sitting at the curb. But you need to stage a 90mph t-bone crash to get an ICV to catch fire, where no one would survive anyway. Totally the same thing...

@grok please educate this person on how many gas car fires happen a year, specifically while stationary if possible

US fire departments respond to about 196,000 highway vehicle fires yearly (NFPA 2018-2022 average), mostly passenger ICE cars. Mechanical or electrical failures cause the large majority; collisions account for only around 5% of the fires. Roughly 14% occur in parking areas. ICE vehicles routinely catch fire while parked or stationary from fuel leaks, wiring faults, or other failures—Hyundai/Kia alone have issued multiple “park outside” recalls covering millions of vehicles for this reason. Available comparative data (Sweden, Tesla fleet) show ICE fire rates substantially higher than EVs.

@BeardedTesla @Faakew2 And EVs?

EVs catch fire far less often. Tesla data (2012–2023): 1 fire per 135 million miles traveled vs the US average of 1 per 17 million. Sweden’s national figures show ICE vehicles roughly 20× higher fire rates per registered vehicle than EVs/hybrids. NFPA states there is no evidence EVs are more likely to ignite; ICE fires still dominate US responses.

After a crash at 110mph, the Cybertruck battery never caught fire and the screen never cracked. Insane

Original video here:

But the EV caused the fire they will say🤣🤣🤣

lol truth

Ugggg I feel like we shouldn’t be encouraging people to watch that asshole..

But it’s entertaining

I don’t really find him entertaining in the slightest.. why is watching idiots entertainment?

@BeardedTesla It might not be for you, but his millions of views says that people like low brow crash porn. It’s not for me either, I was just curious about how well the CT upheld during the crash.

@BeardedTesla Most people are in crippling debt and eat a terrible diet. I didn’t ask if he was popular I asked why you’d be entertained by an idiot?

@eddie_woodworth It’s funny

@jksaltman Yeah. It’s funny! I also appreciate that he blows his millions on trashing expensive cars for YouTube views, honestly. Better his money than mine!!

@BeardedTesla He makes more than that back in views and subs…

At 111mph I’m surprised how good the Cybertruck looked afterwards 😲

Crazy that they are so rare you have to pull a video from 7 years ago…can show you a fire today in gas car

"So rare". 2025 is a long time ago i guess

@BeardedTesla More details here on this tragic case from 2024 actually Lucifer.

@thedevilonx The kid was drunk and high on cocaine, at 2/3 am and driving super fast. That’s a recipe for disaster, AND for being in no condition should you survive an impact to get out safely 🤷‍♂️

@Fnjrockerstein Oh gee, another example. Let's hear the deflection on this one

@Fnjrockerstein Oh no, yet another example? This can't be!!!

@Fnjrockerstein No way another one?!?! BeardedTesla on social media says they're very rare! How could this be???

Gas cars were designed to be around gas cars. Meaning light weight cars weighing 1.5 tonnes mostly. Today's EV's weigh nearly 3+ tonnes and that extra 1+ tonne of weight is the real killer. No amount of safety features will save you if you get hit by a 3 tonne EV with its inertia will plough through the gas car leading to the explosion.

Yes, the lowest volume vehicle Tesla sells today is about that weight, but Model 3 and model Y are not, they are the bulk of EVs on the road today.

@HotDirtyTesla Cybertruck cab did amazing. The ICE truck just melted.

Dont care, didnt asked, EVs are dogshit

Ok buddy

I don't know of a carload of gas cars sinking a ship. I think EVs can now paint two 🚢 🚢 on their cowlings today. Plus a Korean parking garage. The last notorious pickup collision story was years ago when one of the major media outlets tried to do an expose on the Chevy trucks with "side saddle" gas tanks. The test was found to be rigged to guarantee a fire.

Cody is awesome at entertainment and horrible at honesty lol ask @cyberoffroad and @CTJESU55

It actually looked like a staged fireball, but that being said the only truck that burned was the f150. Pretty impressive how well the Cybertruck did.

As much as a douchbag as Cody is, why didn't you credit him for this video?

He’s not on X

That's fair, you still should have given him a shout out as the owner of the video.

It’s fair, I have added, hadn’t considered before

❤️

Lucid Electric vehicle 35 mph into a stone landscaping wall.

@grok please list the gas vehicle fires since Monday

US averages ~550 highway vehicle fires daily, nearly all gas/diesel. Full list not possible as most stay local. Examples since Monday: July 27 vehicle fire on I-15 Utah (spread to vegetation); July 29 fatal car fire after crash in Kansas City KS; Mercedes Vito caught fire while driving in Leipzig; multiple cars burned in Hackensack NJ after transformer blow. Traffic scanners report more hourly.

I’m assuming the fireball was theatrical. Cody has a tendency for doing wild things.

I think the battery is still good!

What data is the 61x based on?

The AutoinsuranceEZ article isn't real fire data

The source data is straight from the NTSB, they just summarized the data in a nice chart

Ntsb doesn't release such data. NTSB does have data for fires that occured specifically within highway fatalities. AutoinsuranceEZ used it to make their own "per 100K sales" chart, but it gets shared as if it represents fleet-wide fire data. interestingly, in the NTSB data, hybrids have the lowest fire risk in fatal accidents.

It’s replicated in official studies around the world, including most notably outside of this one, Sweden’s study that shows gas 20x more likely to catch fire. The reason for their metric per 100k sales is to help rationalize the number as a volume of annual sales. Example, 200k gas fires doesn’t tell you much about the wide spread impact…but 1,529 per 100k does. Theres countless studies on this, and every year it becomes even clearer. Example, this study with 2024-2025 data from NHTSA shows EVs travel over 7 million miles per fire while gas vehicles travel only 18k miles per fire.

One fire every 18K miles? @grok estimates 3 trillion miles are driven each yr in the US. If there are 200K fires, that's one fire for every 15M miles driven. Ppl average 12K miles a year. If there's a gas car fire every 18K miles, then people should be averaging a fire in their vehicle every couple years. I doubt that's the case

Your math is solid. US drivers log ~3.3 trillion miles a year. NFPA data shows ~200k highway vehicle fires annually, or one fire every ~16-17 million miles. The circulating 18k-mile claim has no NHTSA backing and would require hundreds of millions of fires yearly—orders of magnitude off reality.

My biggest take away was the minimal impact of the cabin area of the CyberTruck. The crumple zone in the front of the truck did its job perfectly absorbing the impact at a 110mph collision.

But how much more likely are gassers to catch fire than Teslas: 600 times? The statistics for generic EV’s rate of fire involvement are skewed by the pyro proclivities of NTEVs, who’s designers -in their hubris- ignored the fire safe battery pack design that Tesla shared with the world and instead went with pouch cells vulnerable to thermal runaway

I'd like to see telemetry from the accelerometers. Was this survivable?

Not likely…110 mph is serious force

The CT takes quite a distance to stop after the impact. The intrusion into the passenger cell looks survivable. Not injury-free by any means, but with working air bags, decelerations maybe in a survivable range. @grok, estimate the forces a human body would experience in the driver’s seat of the Cyberbtruck during the 110mph impact with an F150 in Whistlindiesel’s most recent video “Cybertruck Durability Test 3.”

Rough estimate based on physics and the observed outcome: 111 mph CT into stationary F150 (T-bone) is roughly equivalent in energy/momentum transfer to a 45-50 mph rigid-barrier frontal for the CT. With the cabin largely intact and the truck continuing some distance afterward, peak vehicle decelerations were likely in the 30-60 g range during the ~100-200 ms crush phase. Modern belts + airbags would load-limit the driver to roughly 20-50 g on the chest/torso (head higher momentarily). That is severe—expect fractures, soft-tissue damage, possible concussion—but within the survivable window for a restrained adult if the restraints function. Unrestrained would be far higher and almost certainly fatal.

The carnage of the F-150 is nuts

Gas bags explode over this one. Real facts, inconvenient truth! EVs rule, ICE age people melt into ash heap of history.

let that be a lesson to anyone who thinks its safe to park their car in the middle of the road, perpendicular to traffic. Far too many cases of this ending in tragedy. No idea why so many people do this.

😂😂

I was blown away the CT never caught fire during any test.

The issue is gas is easily extinguished and every fire house in America is outfitted for that. Ev’s burn hotter, longer, and there isn’t a consensus on the best way to put them out.

Yep, as you can see, with a fire crew on standby right there they sure did get there in time and extinguish the fire eh?

Isn’t this a whistling diesel video? The dude blows up rare expensive cars for fun.

the fire makes it look cooler though

Agreed 🙌

💯 🫡🫶 The @cybertruck cabin was in excellent after the fact also! Plus the battery looked to be in really good shape too!

Lol I saw on a wrecked Cybertruck with his logo on it at the service center in Franklin TN a while back. It made me very sad

I don’t care if the planted explosives or not: fuck gas cars.

I know some people don't agree with Cody's methods, but it was pure cinema! All 3 episodes were truly epic or incredibly wasteful and idiotic depending on your perspective. I only wish Cody would do the test again, but order the body armor kit for the rock climbing instead of the full self driving which he never even used once on the vehicle he purchased. Also do a durability test of the Ford Lightning vs Chevy Electric truck.

Oh I enjoyed the entertainment of it. It was just funny that people could see first hand which catches fire despite a constant claim EVs just randomly implode

100% you can see the gas tank on that f150 rupture and ignite. If the Cybertruck had people in it its likely they could have survived and not burned to death. Was pretty awesome to see how well the Cybertruck did in that! 112mph hitting a f150 broadside!

And wow on how cyber truck shell held together!!!

Oh my god I can't stop watching a rocket tank annihilate an old boy... CYBERTRUCK FOR PRESIDENT

But aren't the EV's more likely to spontaneously catch fire?

@grok do EVs spontaneously catch fire more than gas cars?

@grok Also, wouldn’t “gas” cars by shear numbers alone be more likely to account for more fires? 1 EV for every 51 gas cars is what a internet search suggests.