Electric cars.

Whether it was a truck or not that caught fire, one thing for sure, the fire broke out at a battery recycling plant. Portable battery recycling ltd claim to be the UK's only specialist portable Battery recycler, don't know if they recycle large electric batteries or just your everyday portable batteries, probably the latter.

Huge fire breaks out at battery recycling centre as 'explosions' heard

 

Lots of objections in Scotland regarding building battery storage plants.

Battery storage industry tries to dampen fire safety opposition

Also, you sort of get the feeling the fire service are not being consulted enough regarding the risk of fires.

Staffordshire commissioner raises battery energy storage concerns

 

Its madness, trying to force people to buy, at greater cost, something they dont want.

Next they will want to connect them to the internet so they can stop supporting them and make them obsolete, now where have I heard of that before.