evidence: We're increasingly asked about the risk of an electric vehicle (EV) exploding, particularly in underground parking or roadways, such as tunnels. Our research identified & verified fourteen (14) EV explosion incidents since 2010 - that's from a global market of 10 million EVs in operation at the end of 2020. [...] An electric vehicle explosion, leading to a battery fire, is very rare. Let's have a look at what we mean by 'EV explosion', what the risk is & some of the circumstances in which they've occurred. [...] While the terminology 'electric car explosion' is great for search engine clicks, the correct term we prefer to use is vapour cloud explosion (VCE).