When I was seventeen I saw a Volvo ignite and an infant in the back go up with it. Everyone did everything humanly possible to save the child, but that car went up very quickly after being rear-ended.
After using gasoline for the last 80 plus years across the U.S., it’s rather strange to all of a sudden start acting like electric cars are a real threat.
It would seem some policy of disconnecting and staging the batter pack would be a good idea. In time that’s probably what they’ll wind up doing.
People best be careful if they work on them also. There’s a lot of juice flowing through those things.