Electric vehicle battery fires - Find a freedom of information request

1. Number of EV battery fires that have been tackled by Lincolnshire Fire & Rescue from June 2019 - June 2023

2. Please include a break down of types of vehicle in the data (car, bus/coach, e-bike/e-scooter, etc)

3. Please include details on month, year, cause of fire, fire spread and injuries/fatalities as a result of the fire

4. If possible, can you provide any details on how many of the batteries were certified by the vehicle OEM, or if the batteries had a battery management system or state of health monitoring?

1 to 3. Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue (LFR) cannot answer this one in relation to electric vehicles.

LFR use the national Home Office recording system and there is no breakdown of when a vehicle is electric. It can however utilise a wildcard search for words such as 'E-bike' or 'E-scooter'. (There is no reliable search for an electric vehicle.)

One recorded fire incident involving an E-Scooter in April 2023. The damage was confined to the battery only, no casualties. Cause recorded as 'electrical fault'.

4. LFR do not hold this information.