The electric vehicle industry is still being confronted with battery fires in electric cars, scooters and buses. Lithium batteries can reach 2700 degrees Celsius while burning, making them difficult to contain and to extinguish. The most recent battery fires are in Paris and India. In Paris, two electric buses had their batteries catch fire, causing the fleet of buses by the manufacturer Bollore to be temporarily suspended. In India, electric scooter battery fires documented on social media have even caused some deaths and many electric scooters being recalled. Before these occurrences, Chevrolet recalled its entire fleet of Bolts due to battery fires, at a cost of $1.8 billion. Tesla, too, has had a number of battery fires.
