FOI release

number of fires of Electrical Vehicles

Case reference FOI2025/00842

Received 8 August 2025

Published 16 September 2025

Request

1. Could you provide me with the number of fires of Electrical Vehicles in your area over the last five years (or the annualised data to which you might be capturing this data if longer or shorter than five years)? 2. Assuming you capture the data, of the total number of Electric Vehicle fires that you have recorded, could you also indicate how many fires in Electric Vehicles started (a) whilst connected to a charging device and (b) whilst just driving or parked without a connection to a charging device? 3. In addition, could you provide me with the number of Internal Combustion Engine vehicle fires over the same period.

Response

Please see the response in the link below.

Documents

• FOIA response for disclosure log - FOI2025_00842 Final Response.pdf update.pdf (113.1 KB)

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