It might sound unlikely, but leaving plastic water bottles in a hot car might not be safe and could actually lead to a fire.

The BMW cars impacted by the water pump fire risk recall include the 2012 to 2016 model years of the BMW 328i and 328xi cars, as well as the 2014 to 2016 BMW 328xi Gran Turismo, and 2012 to 2016 ...

In case of fire, Tesla advises responders not to "submerge vehicle to extinguish/cool ... gallons of water — roughly 40 times as much as is needed to put out a combustion engine car.

The thousands of gallons of water were used to “extinguish the flames and cool the vehicle’s batteries,” the report read. The fire broke out around 3:13 p.m. on Aug. 19 on Interstate 80 in ...

Cars and trucks catch on fire all the time due to accidents ... firefighting methods — i.e. pouring some water on a blaze to cool and suffocate it — because the integrated components of ...