Thread: Jaguar I-Pace Spontaneously Catches Fire While Charging In Florida

This could be making a mountain out of a molehill owing to the small numbers involved, but here is the article
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This reportedly is the fourth such fire and the cause has yet to be pinpointed.
Even though the Jaguar I-Pace isn’t regarded as one of those EVs that can spontaneously catch fire, well, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, and when it does there's a strong chance its battery cells may be to blame. The most recent is a fire that destroyed a 2019 I-Pace in Florida while the vehicle was reportedly parked and charging in a garage, with its owner driving it out (even though it was already billowing smoke) just before it went up in flames.

It occurred in mid-June of this year and the vehicle’s owner, Gonzalo Salazar, told Electrek that

On June 16, I plugged the car in before going to bed. In the morning of June 17, I woke up and unplugged the car. Later that morning, I set out to run some errands. I drove about 12 miles that morning before returning back home and parking the car back in the garage, leaving the garage door open. As I was doing things at home, I heard pops coming from the garage. I decided to go see where the sounds were coming from, and upon walking into the garage, I faced a thick wall of smoke. My thought immediately was, ‘When there is smoke there is fire,’ and I need to get the car out of the house garage.

Lithium batteries are supposed to have shut down software in case the temperature rises too high. Sounds like the software failed to work.