The claim
Captions on a video showing a burning bus suggest that it is an electric vehicle.
Our conclusion
That's wrong. It shows a gas-powered bus that caught fire in Italy, Perugia, on April 16, 2022.
The caption in a Facebook post ( HERE ) contains a dig at “the Greens”. It is suggested that electric vehicles would be unsafe, the batteries could lead to devastating fires.
electric bus with battery fire”
To date, this post has been shared over 13,500 times, received over 1,000 reactions and almost 900 comments. There will probably be more.
Electric cars are repeatedly criticized for the fact that the batteries can easily catch fire, which, according to ADAC, is not the case:
“ Spontaneous ignition of an electric car without external influences while driving, stationary or charging due to a technical defect is extremely rare.”
ADAC
Bus fire
The video comes from Italy, Perugia, and was recorded on April 16, 2022. It shows a gas-powered bus catching fire. Only the driver himself was in the vehicle; according to Italian media reports, take it to the workshop.
For this reason, no one else was on board, and the driver was not injured.
“Umbria On”, an independent Italian news site, published the video on their YouTube channel and also reported on the incident website
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The cause of the fire has not yet been clarified. It is suspected that a fire broke out in the engine compartment and led to the complete destruction of the vehicle.
Carscoops explains that this is an “Irisbus Iveco Cityclass with a regular combustion engine and roof-mounted CNG tanks.” According to Carscoops, such fires are also extremely rare .
Conclusion
This bus is not an electric vehicle . It is a gas powered Iveco Cityclass.
The fire happened on April 16 in Perugia, Italy. Only the driver was on board and no one was injured. The cause is still unclear, but it is suspected that the gas tanks on the roof of the bus caught fire due to a fire in the engine compartment.
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Source: fireworld.at , il Messaggero , la Nazione , Umbria On , Carscoops
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