What Actually Happens When A Car Explodes In Real Life? DEBUNKED
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- Do vehicles really combust into fireballs when they collide? Are doors and hoods sent flying from the blast? Or is it all just movie myth?
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Meh 😑
Very well explained... Thank you!
Two things to add:
In some European countries you will find a significant share of LPG converted cars (Netherland, Poland, Czechia...). The LPG tanks always have overpressure valves to prevent explosions. If such a car is burning - don't use a fire extinguisher. Gas that is burning is safer than evaporizing gas that mixes with oxygen.
Here we as well have a lot of diesel cars. These are unable zo explode - whatever you are doing with it.
Thank you! Glad appreciated it!
Thank you for adding that additional information 🧠 We did start to cover this but the market share is so low in the US and UK that we didn’t go into it and instead opted for tankers to make it more universal while covering the same fuel source. 👍
@@DebunkedOfficial Sure, makes sense not to confuse the majority of your audience 👍
@@DebunkedOfficial one modest correction. There is one larger explosion of a non-military nature that's industrial in nature. Ammonium nitrate based explosion accidents, such as in Lebanon, the Texas port disaster and a number of others. Typically, that involves contaminated ammonium nitrate and being stored at non-optimal temperatures and well, ammonium nitrate and any kind of fuel (contaminants or intentional introduction of fuel) becomes a high explosive.
Ammonium nitrate spilled on its own, no big deal beyond algal blooms and plants recovering from chemical burns initially massively recovering and growing like weeds. If the spill gets mixed with a fuel, well, if I'm a witness, you'll swear that The Flash character in comic book movies is real.
Apparently you've never heard of diesel run-away
Back in the '80s, my friends and I began noticing that in some ( okay, a LOT) of movies, a car could explode simply for leaving the road, without hitting anything. We found this so amusing we made a drinking game of it where every time a car blew up for no rational reason, you'd take a drink. If it exploded in mid-air after driving off a cliff without hitting anything that might have caused a fuel link or other excuse for an explosion, you had to take two drinks.
I don't have many clear memories of any of those movies.
😆 Thanks for sharing
I was always highly amused by those Hollywood movies where the car burst into flames BEFORE it hit anything.
@@cr10001 😂
This channel is the perfect definition of quality over quantity, great job!
That's an incredibly kind comment, thank you so much! What are you favorite types of videos that we make? Any topics you'd like to see in the future?
Couldn’t agree more 👌
I have seen at least three vehicle fires where the unit burned unattended until the gas tank "exploded". All three times the vehicle began smoking, started lightly burning, then inside of a minute became engulfed as seats etc burned up, followed by the tank going boom. But it was not very cinematic. The tank is under the car and when compromised usually just blasts towards the pavement. Honestly it was more of a bang than a big kaboom. Worst movie explosion I ever saw was FAR more dramatic than any car fire.
Near our eldest daughter's home, a pressurized gas supplier had a fire. A tank had failed, catching fire and when it vented, rolled amongst other tanks, triggering a BLEVE explosion and much larger fire. This involved a rather large propane supply tank typically used to fill small propane tanker trucks and portable propane tanks.
The residential area within a few hundred yards was evacuated as a precaution, as I recall none even had windows shattered. The large propane tank vented, the vented vapors ignited, the fire department got things under control and everything become boring, which was welcomed by all.
The only injury was to the insurance company.
Gotta love all of that safety equipment! Oh, the company changed their procedures and well, a tank failing isn't going to make life exciting any longer.
I've lived through some quite exciting events in my life and have learned, exciting lives are most frequently notable for their brevity. I like boring, boring is good.
very underated channel. Hope this blows up ;D
So glad you mentioned the "Boksburg" explosion that happen in South Africa the day before Xmas 2022. It was around 07h00 and as the crow flies... 5km away. Yet it woke me, and my wife who was downstairs at the time, said the lounge door rattled as though someone was trying to come in. Dogs went crazy too. Yea... that wasn't very pleasant and the footage of the aftermath was horrific. So kudos to you.😊
The BLEVE can happen to a steam locomotive, if the pressure is suddenly released through some defect in boiler or pipe, all that overheated water suddenly wants to expand to a volume,I think 1600 times. I’ve seen photos of exploded locos and there is just the cab left everything else is gone.
Correct, it doesn't have to involve a flammable liquid at all. Thanks for watching and commenting. We hope you enjoyed our video 👍
Look up the numbers on the 1912 san Antonio loco explosión. Absolutely enormous forces involved .
One 15,000 lb engine casting landed a 1/4 mile away .
I love ❤ the way you simplify the explanlations 😅 it always keeps me interested
I would love if you make a video about explosions seeing if itis possible to make one as small as a bullet /arrow head that explodes on impact😅
12:05 fun fact that’s why fuel tankers aren’t legally allowed to travel through tunnels
Last summer in my country an LPG filling station exploded. Apparently, the guy transferring the fuel from the truck to the station's tanks was smoking and investigators found out that this wasn't the first time he's been doing this, he just happened to encounter the right fuel mixture this time around.
Your channel is so friggin useful when writing my novels.
Cool, what are you writing?
The engine of a motor vehicle is called a ICE. Which stands for 'Internal Combustion Engine'
So there are no explosions going on inside but simply combustion, otherwise your motor would very quickly be damaged.
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Indeed it’s a flame front that expands. Not an explosion.
exactly 😄 too bad he didn't respond to me. @DebunkedOfficial @@mrredfeet
In some countries however the name for the ICE is literally "explosion motor", e.g. in French (moteur à explosion) or Italian (motore a scoppio)
@@MrOpenGL Well then they are wrong. 😄
no one likes an external combustion engine
*badumtuss*
I didnt even get a notification for your video and im just seeing it 2 days later but such great quality video as always.
That’s frustrating, but very glad you found it! Thank you for watching and commenting 👍
Cool! Excited about this one!
I’m a firefighter for 25 years and not once did I witness a car exploding.
Thinks in the car maybe could and the tires most certainly will if the car is engulfed in flames but this wont be more than a pop.
I don’t say it’s totally impossible a car can explode but its very very very unlikely!
Tanks are designed to blow off instead of exploding catastrophically, so are Gas tanks… (thats what you see in the clip either this bus and the big flames shooting out of the top… it looks like carnage but in fact is does exactly what it is designed to do.)
So yeah; if your car burns, Go away (preferably behind a guardrail) because fire is kinda nasty stuff but there’s no need to duck and cover because your car will most likely just burn until only metal is left.
Ghetto silencer is a 2 liter plastic soda bottle duct taped on the end of the barrel. Just changes the sound so most people cannot distinguish the sound from a automobile crash.
In Brazil, we commonly use a type of gas (kinda like cooking gas) to power gasoline engines. Sometimes the conversion uses goes bad and the new tank explode out of nowhere, is pretty terrifying.
I believe you are talking about LPG (autogas) as well (propane / butane?) Yes there are a lot of examples of badly converted cars exploding, not often in a cinematic fireball but with a lot of force that can blow the windows, doors and roof out! We did start to cover this in an earlier version of the script, but it’s not widely used in USA and UK, and wasn’t sure if there was enough of a market share to present it to our audience. Thanks for your comment and watching 👍
So glad we're getting more Debunked! :D
Glad you’re watching them 👍
Let's see this time whether he delivers on high quality content and high quality hairstyles 😄 well as I'm watching it seems he has done both yet again ! Somehow you just get the mix of science and fun just right every time! 🧠
What's the verdict? 😅
@@DebunkedOfficial never disappointing content as always ! 😁 the incorporation of EVs was much appreciated. It was very nice to see both car types being. explored.
@@uncommonsimon5775 Thanks for watching and commenting as always! 👍
I bought a car previously used on a Michael Bay movie,
then showed this video to my car. 😤🤯💥
He exploded right away just to spite me.
Nice
Thanks!
In one of the clips you used of an "EV" car exploding (the one in the carport) I swear I read it was a hydrogen cell car
Hydrogen fuel cell cars are hybrid EVs so technically it was an exploding EV... Far better than the usual case where some fake news producer makes a huge headline about EV fires and you can clearly see the car has a tailpipe... There was even one about electric bikes and motorcycles the fuel tank on that motorcycle was rather obvious.
If you want a higgling comments, gasoline does NOT "explode' in the combustion chamber, it burns...FAST. The distinction may seem academic, but to engineers that work with engine performance, and especially with defeating "knock", it's VERY important. The combustion chamber design along with air and/or fuel induction is tuned to get the desired "flame front" that gets the best power and/or fuel economy.
In the movies, special effects technicians use what are known as "squibs", i.e., sort of like small firecrackers, to get a fireball out of a staged (for the film) car collision. It doesn't always work! And even when it does, sometimes it's quite obviously to the trained eye. When NBC News did an "expose" on Chevrolet trucks with their "saddlebags" fuel tanks, prone to being damaged and leaking, an obvious fire hazard, in a sideswipe collision, they filmed a "demonstration" which showed the truck apparently made of "explodium"! What was revealed, and GM sued the hell out of NBC over it (and WHY did the network authorize this "hit piece" on a major ADVERTISER?), was that those "squibs" were used to STAGE the explosion. GM released its own data showing that the trucks met then-standards for crash safety, especially with respect to fuel system integrity in a collision, and that the speed depicted in the "hit piece" film for a side swipe was in the upper 95th percentile of HTSA data on sideswipes of ALL vehicles...ergo, there was a less than 5 percent chance that a driver of a Chevy pickup would ever be struck in such a manner if a sideswipe collision happened, let alone the still unlikelihood that the vehicle would catch fire! Needless to say, a significant settlement was reached by GM against NBC.
The issue with the crash safety of the Pinto was the unfortunate convergence of three factors: (1) before the "5 mph crash" bumpers that began to appear on 1973 and 1974 cars, most large American cars could indeed, in a "nose-down" attitude upon hard braking (didn't also help that a lot of vehicles until the late 1960s had only DRUM brakes on the front, which were more prone to "lock up" with hard braking), slide perfectly under its rear bumper and smash the relatively unprotected gas tank (2) the Pinto itself was designed IAW Lee Iacocca's dictum to develop the car with the rule of the "Twos"...TWO Thousand lbs GVW, TWO years, and TWO Thousand dollars suggested retail price, and (3) a better fuel tank, which Ford had believed when the Pinto was first proposed in 1967, was thought to be mandated by its introduction, eliminating any further efforts to modify the basic design for crash integrity, but rather than being required, was pushed off until the 1978 models, by which time Iacocca though the Pinto would be significantly re-designed (the typical life of a particular line was about four or five years at the time) or even replaced altogether. Ford actually met the last, handily (the original Dealer SPR was $1,919), the car was SLIGHTLY over the 2,000 lb target GVW, and it took 26 months before production began. The car was designed with a very minimal unibody frame to save weight; and as it was figured to come in only a 2-door coupe, 2-door hatchback (the most commonly sold version), and a "three-door" wagon, there was one "little problem"...when slammed into from the rear, the doors could be jammed SHUT, inhibited escape from a burning car! This actually happened in a terrible collision in Indiana in 1978 when, even after Ford has issued the recall notice (the parents of the teenaged girl driving the car, the legal owners of the vehicle, had yet to receive theirs), an unmodified Pinto was struck from behind, burning the three occupants, all teenaged girls, to death, as desperate attempts to rescue them failed. This was the first time a major corporation had ever been charged with a crime in relation to product safety; but the state court trial, Ford was found "not guilty", as the State of Indiana failed to prove that Ford had acted with reckless indifference that rose to the level of criminal behavior, since the jury found that Ford had made a good faith effort to carry out the recall and correct the flawed design. The modification that ended up being the "Kluge" was a plastic shield that, if the tank were hit and pushed against the differential, would blunt the effect against the protruding fasteners on the rear axle housing. NOTE: This was a major factor in car makers converting small cars to FWD configurations, as the "live" rear axle proved a significant problem for fuel tank placement and space for it, a spare tire, and the TRUNK or hatchback. Contrary to the assertions of the Mother Jones article, though, the issue wasn't a small pittance, i.e., "eleven cents" per vehicle, as was commonly bandied about, it was when Ford would be required to use fuel tanks that were engineered for better collision safety, which originally was meant for the 1972 model year; the NTSHA pushed that back to 1978, so Ford went with what was essentially a gloried, pressed-galvanized steel "can", not unlike every OTHER vehicle it made, in the Pinto. The ACTUAL record for the Pinto, contrary to it being supposed to be made of "explodium", in fact, is about the AVERAGE of subcompacts of that era for car fires resulting from collisions!
Only exploding cars are the ones using CNG (Compressed natural gas) and LNG (Liquefied natural gas), methane and propane. You can look up and search for videos in real life of methane and propane tank explosion in a car, there are some security and dashcam videos available.
Also, electric cars can explode if their batteries get damaged and get in contact with water, because lithium reacts violently with water (you can look up videos for energizer lithium battery in water explosion)
The fuel tankers as well as other liquid (milk, water other) usually implode (like the ocean gate sub😂) due to operator error as in not opening correct valves/vents or poor maintenance when unloading at a petrol station fuel farm gas bank ect.
Always thought there was something a bit off about this! 💥 🚗
When it comes to life threatning matter, it doesn't matter if it have 99% chance of not happening, it's the fact that this 1% chance exist is what need attention the most. After all it wouldn't be called "accident" if its likely to happens.
yes there are examples that do in the right circumstances such as a Ford Pinto when hit at low speed and the front bumper of the other car punctures the gas tank and the pinto blows up or others have from a battery fire I.E. Hyundai Tucson/Kia Sorrento etc.
We cover both of these topics, just keep watching 😉
Another myth is that cigarettes can ignite car fuel. They can not. Petroleum has a very specific flash point, which requires a very specific amount of oxygen. the problem is the ash on the end of a cigarette prevents that mixture of fuel and oxygen from occurring.
You can, however, ignite fuel with the flame you use to ignite your cigarette... which means if you are going to smoke at a fuel station, make sure to light up before you get there.
Not sure I’d be keen to take the chance 😆
11:27 i'm pretty gaseous at room temperature too, especially after i eat lots of springrolls hahaha
😂 likewise 💨
With the pinto, some people have reported being sprayed in the face with oil while driving.
this was parodied in “The Jerk” with Steve Martin. Two cars just touch their bumpers and both exploded in two fireballs
Hey debunk do umbrella guns actually work or they just for show?
Interesting idea 👍
Combustion engine car tanks can explode but only with high octane gasoline or under some circumstances like with the pinto. But it’s not a movie exlplosion Diesel won’t even burn when tried it needs a lot of pressure.
Why were the Pinto crash tests under "assumed worst case scenario" conducted, guys? Did it, like ignite just like in the tests in real life and unalived a bunch of people and injured them? (They did)
What's the craziest vehicle explosion you've seen in a movie?
Zoolander gasoline / water fight 🤦♂️ 😆
Like the movies where cars explode any time they stop by any means other than the brakes?
Unless you're running a diesel engine in the presence of a spark plug in the demonstration.Says it's not.There is no explosions in a gasoline engine.Unless something is seriously wrong.The fuel Burns rapidly.Yes, but it does not explode.It's not even a class c type explosion Which is the weakest explosion there is But it is a burn and a rapid expansion of air which pushes the piston down so his demonstration is half right correctionist demonstration is correct.His words are whacked
Well the "study" about EVs taking fire vs gas cars is not really something fare so to speak, EVs are kind of new, modern EVs, first car ever was electric, is waaay to small of a sample size yet to compare it
I always wonder how much damage the movie industry has caused the environment!
...what with constant record breaking gasoline explosions in James Bond movies and action genre in general. It can't be great..
Seeing oil refineries or deep sea oil platforms just burning away pumping thick black smoke into the air makes me cringe..
When it comes to Hollywood explosions, I really don't like the fireworks they add into the explosions, they look cheesy and fake.. the ones that leave streams of sparks as they fly out of the center bang.
It's more likely that an EV will catch fire than explode. In 2023 with the massive flooding of some places, some EVs that got caught in the water were reported to start catching fire. The water got to the batteries and caused them to short or over heat and catch fire.
"Tell me you haven't witnessed several cars exploding from accidents without explicitly saying it."
Statistical data doesn't account for the increasing number of jackass drivers who drive like they own the road. As eluded to above, I've witnessed double digits of cars exploding spectacularly, with muli-car pile ups only including ~5 of the overall total car explosions I've personally witnessed.
You touched on this but I'm going to reiterate it, statistically unlikely doesn't mean impossible. If you live somewhere where people clearly don't know how to properly drive the likelihood increases, with ~2 explosions occurring due to loosing traction on black ice and sliding into tall concrete barriers.
That's just My experiences though. Your experiences will likely greatly vary.
Ford Pinto was an expert at exploding by the way it was made.
My car's engine caught fire once. I put it out with snow and cursed that piece of junk. Lol I'm happy to know I wasn't in any danger of it exploding like I was lectured on about when I got home. 😂
Quick thinking, well done! Caught it before it spread 👌 Did it have to go to the junk yard or did you manage to get it repaired?
@@DebunkedOfficialhaha thanks. Unfortunately, I had to junk it. I got a better car after that so it was a good thing in the end. 😊
Nice! Every cloud has a silver lining… except Vapor Clouds of course! 😆
@@DebunkedOfficial😂
The bus that is burning is correct -> if it’s electric the batteries are designed to blow out at a specific point to control the flames. This is done to “steer” the flames away from exits to give people a chance to escape.
That bus in particular ran on natural gas, but was originally shared and went viral on social media claiming it was an electric bus. Thanks for your comment and for watching 👍
Creators of this video missed the Luton Car Park fire I guess.
Good info but it would have been much improved by some actual examples of the sound levels, recorded in a familiar environment (eg, someone talking and then firing a suppressed gun).
Wrong video mate
I can just think of the german Alarm für Cobra 11, there are constant explosions.
😆 I just watched some clips, that series looks like a lot of fun!
Hats off to the Pakistani animation sweatshop for these cool animations 😂
Woah 😳
In EV’s it is very true
Jeeps has now multiple incidents where it exploded while standing still 😜
great great channel
I hope Your informative video, gives some, real facts to those, who believe in movies.
Having wrecked/rolled over, a couple of dozen cars, during my days as a rally driver, I know,
cars don´t explode. Nor, when rolled over several times, or when hitting stationary objects.
from a Finn in Diaspora
I wander if cars splode when theys filpped over. In the older gta they splode but the newer ones I doen'st think so someone should conduce some science on that an try an see.
This was cool but you did fail to mention how highly toxic EV fires actually are. You can easily be killed by ingesting toxic chemicals even standing metres away in a so called safe area if it is in the direction the wind is blowing unless you are wearing protective equipment.
This is never stressed enough by media or authorities in many countries either yet other countries rightly wear special equipment to go anywhere near such a fire and prevent crowds from stopping and gawking.
Thankfully steps are being made at least in some countries to respect the issues around EV related fires.
As for tanker fires I have seen a few here in Australia and the results are never something you want to witness.
What you should have said is stay well clear,of any vehicle fire unless you are authority putting it out.
EV fires may be rarer than ICE fires but they are much more deadly.
You also should never risk charging EV’s in a closed up garage at all despite what the manufacturer might try to convince you about it being perfectly safe to do so.
Always charge the EV out in the open air.
There is no issue if people want to be brainwashed by Electric Jesus but just don’t become a statistic in their science experiment.
I wonder if Mythbusters made an episode about this. And put it to the test
They already did. in episode called "Crash and Burned" they having a hard time making one explode that they wasted 3 cars in the process.
@@Iskalawagz24 Thank you. You have inspired me to watch that episode.
What I said 7 minutes ago before realising that the episode was not available on Max.
What's the % of EVs catching fire compared to the total amount of EVs, and the same with combustion cars.
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Also define fire, are we talking for evey little one occurrence or total destruction?
09:51 pure BS
considering how small the eV market is, the number of fires are concerning.
No its measured for how many fires in 100.000 purchases. And in some countries the regulations are higher which means it is EVEN more unlikely to happen than what was already shown
Jec: yes and no, that is the price the early adapters are paying... the BEV industry is moving to safer battery chemistry like LFP which is less likely to catch fire compared to older (crap chinese) batteries. As for the numbers, they are playing with stats to make petrol cars look more likely to catch fire compared to BEVs, but that includes 50 year old petrol cars compared to 12 year old Tesla's... most fires are caused by arson and electrical faults, it will be interesting to see 30 year old BEVs fast charge in the future :-)
@@ttkddry thanks for that additional input 👍
Fun fact: Gasoline is NOT flammable. Yes, that's right, I said gasoline is not flammable. Gasoline *vapor* is flammable and only when mixed with the right amount of oxygen. Gasoline will not burn in a vacuum. You basically said this in the video, just not as dramatically. However, lithium ion batteries found in electric vehicles (or in your cell phone you carry dangerously close to your crotch) *are* EXPLOSIVE! Think about that next time you get a text ;)
At 7m54, you show a clip that has absolutely nothing to do with the subject matter- it's a video of gas bottles exploding on a Russian highway after the truck carrying them was involved in a collision.
It’s an example of misinformation about EVs. If you read the text that accompanied the social share screenshot it says “Reportedly what happens when 2 electric vehicles collide”.
That’s why we then stamp false on them later on.
Thanks for watching.
I would be much more scared of a runaway diesel
I mean realistically a car crashing into a wall or getting shot at won't explode unless something really unlikely happens, but that's just boring to have it be realistic in movies, and people want to see flaming explosions to be entertained.
hollywood did us again
But they do offer some amazing action sequences, even if they are somewhat fantastical! Thanks for watching and comment!
Propane gas sinks in air.
Maybe it was all inspired by the lovable Pinto 😂
on avrage you aint putting out a EV fire that has to burn istlef out
cars would not explode unless lit on fire and even then it takes hours for the fuel tank to heat up enough to ignite the fuel
Thay Do if There EV's
We cover this in the video 👌
GTA would be a lot less fun if it were more realistic
The batteries of EVs do catch fire just sitting there. There are lots of cases of this from cars to vaps to bikes. Gas needs a spark of some sort to ignite a leak. It is of course not PC to point this out.
Is (blank) in movies realistic?
The answer is always no.
Always fun to explore though 😁
First hand, I would say ....no.
Of course they don't, people really believe movies stunts are real
You forgot diesels. One of the safest fuels.
Cars dont explode. The only thing you risk is a major burn
Also recently from a florida hurricane there were several Eva exploding from flooded waters
I wonder how Holywood willl portray exploding EV...
I would imagine Vapor Cloud Explosions but on a far more cinematic scale 💥
@@DebunkedOfficial I'd like to see a big spray of burning liquid metal and battery components, along with an arc flash like you get from 480V 3 phase when it's shorted.
Totally wrong about EV fires, just look at data from last year of fires in EV's, even this year 2024
I don't go to gas stations during a lightning storm because i feel like my life lottery number was called and the gas station will blow up from lightning while I'm there. Stupid, i know!
If made in China, yes /j
Electric vehicles can definitely explode like in Hollywood.
Electric cars do
Negative: an explosion is a supersonic exflagration wave-front in the combustible material. By the Wikipedia definition and that used here, popping a balloon or a paper bag is an "explosion".
There is not an explosion in a piston engine. It's practically impossible even in a laboratory to make an explosion with gasoline and even liquid O2.
There isn't an explosion when a rocket booter comes apart, even if there's a huge fireball and a loud "BOOM!" echoing across the countryside and pieces like confetti.
Aside from range safety devices and warheads, there has never been an explosion in rocketry.
Forensic examiners determined that when the Space Shuttle Challenger was destroyed, there eas no explosive and very little fire damage even on the parts facing the external tank and solid rocket boosters.
There is not an explosion behind a bullet inside a brass cartridge after the primer is struck.
Gasoline? Automobile? I thought you guys were UK based.
If we don’t use American English terminology we often get a lot of comments asking what we’re talking about so as a rule when usually use US terms as they are widely known too. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Only Ford Pintos and Dodge Neons
We cover one of those 🤓
@@DebunkedOfficial haha. I was a banker for 20 years. I retired as the internal auditor and compliance officer. Before that I was a lender. We lost so much money financing Neons that ended up needing more repair than the car was worth or became completely unrepairable. When I moved up to compliance and audit I wrote policy banning them as collateral. 🤣
@@rhondaburke2231 Wow, thanks for sharing 👌
They Simply were not Volvo
petrol
But can you please talk a bit less dramatically
Fuel in combustion engine doesn't explode, it burns.
First :)
Second
First, pin pls
that engine animation is so cringe... combustion and injection at the same time... ok
It's indeed a shame that the animation is so bad
You can't debunk- God created Everything approximately six thousand years ago during Creation week and no such thing as evolution or millions and billions of years ago, especially if you follow Astrophysicist Dr Jason Lisle ✝️.
Electric car fires are also much more dangerous than gas cars
ev far more dangerous that regular gasolin engine
As expected, its all fake^^
Sorry but combustion engines are NOT driven by explosions. The fuel inside the cylinder BURNS.
You are right it doesn't detonate or explode it burns or deflagrates