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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Rachael Davies

Do electric cars catch fire? Social media points fingers at EVs for Luton car-park blaze

After fires broke out in a car-park at Luton on Wednesday, potentially destroying over 1,500 cars, one unsupported theory about the cause of the blaze quickly circulated on social media.

Several videos were shared online of huge fires at Luton Airport, seemingly contained to a multi-storey car-park.

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