Ford warns owners of 140,000 Lincoln SUVs
to park outside amid fears the vehicles
could short circuit and catch fire even
when the engine is TURNED OFF

And of course Ford admitted the problem and replaced the burned car free of charge---------right? LMAO

So a vehicle deigned by Pakistani engineers and assembled to less than okay specs by Guatemalans in Mexico goes up in flames on a regular basis. One of the many benefits of NAFTA/Free Trade brought to you by the One World Order Republicans and Democrats. And don't forget to put that UAW sticker on the windshield...

You need to pay a lot of money for pyrotechnics like that.

I bet auto insurance is not gonna cover these battery fires in the EVs for long,If they haven't started putting clauses in policies already, the more this happens, the more they will refuse to cover. OR the premiums will be so high only a billionaire could afford it.A low price EV starting @ $60,000 is a lot, but I imagine a Lincoln is a whole lot more! People may be just out of luck, too bad so sad! This is the future of yet another half-assed Biden policy.

I almost made #4's mistake and assumed these were EVs. They were not. Thank God no people were injured. But as vehicles reach space-shuttle levels of complexity, the potential failure points are numerous. And expensive to fix.

Nowadays they are never turned off. The computers and several systems are powered up no matter the engine status. When I asked why my battery kept dying after a few months of not running, the dealer called it "parasitic losses". Recommended I put it on a charger at least once a month if I'm not going to drive it.

Are these vehicles made in china?

The big surprise here is that Ford sold 140,000 of them.

horribly written article

The key to understanding this is that like TVs and many other modern devices, cars aren't actually OFF when they are turned "OFF", they are still on and consuming power. How do you think that the electronic door opener or auto-start feature could work if the system wasn't "ON" and listening for a radio command? And many other functions are "ON" too. And, if you don't drive the vehicle for a few weeks....the battery goes dead.

Not clear if it was an EV, hybrid or petrol. Near the bottom it says 'the 12V battery', which all cars have.

Not a problem, it's a Feature to burn down your house with YOU IN IT!

FTA: "Ford is now encouraging owners of impacted SUVs from their 2015-2019 to park their vehicles outside and away from other cars and structures until a solution can be made." The solution is not to buy or be near a Ford.

Nobody should buy ANY vehicle built by UAW anti-american labor. No Fords, no GM, no Chrysler. The only way to take down the evil anti-American unions is to put the companies out of business.

Whoops! thanks #5 for pointing out my mistake. :)

Something never mentioned is there will be no used car market for EVs either. Who would buy a worn-out car that needs a new battery? This is a farce and Joe Biden's last dream in life.

I haven’t bought a vehicle made in the U.S. by union labor in over 20 years, and I never will again. Why pay $65,000 for a car that you have to park in the street so it doesn’t burn your house down?

Sounds just like the Ford recall back around 2000 for fires that would start when the vehicle was off. Didn't they learn anything? The 2000's culprit was a brake sensor used to cancel cruise control. The sensor was a pressure diaphragm switch screwed into the master cylinder. Only that thin diaphragm separated brake fluid from the contacts of the switch. For normal operation the switch would close and apply battery to a circuit which went to the ECM. But the problem was that switch had full battery on it all the time so a malfunction would apply battery directly to the master cylinder which was holding flammable brake fluid. The switch got hot and ignited the brake fluid. Had the battery been in series with a pull up resistor then the current would be low and not enough to start a fire. The first recall was a pigtail in series with the wiring harness that went to that switch. Less than a year later there was another recall because it was determined that the first repair attempt was not sufficient so they took that first pigtail off and replaced it with yet another one. I'll guarantee that the engineers had good fixes in the first place but management rejected them because of expense and a compromise was used - which ultimately was deemed not good enough. Most bad engineering is because management hammers the engineers into a corner and refuses to let them do the best thing.

My brother called me earlier to tell me about a fire on an I-75 overpass belching thick, black smoke. We suspect an EV fire. I don't think I'd even ride in one, let alone buy one.