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You are perhaps assuming that newspapers (and other more modern media) choose stories just on the basis of where they think their public's interest lies. However, Mark Twain's view was:
"Newspapers consist of as many of their owner's opinions as his advertisers will allow him to print"
Do you think people decide to buy a particular new car because they have seen one of those full page adverts in the paper?
The same applies to the Harrods/ Al Fayed scandal.
Of course, fires are not the only EV problem, but the other faults don't get much coverage either.
clubman
@yoav
Probably because when a car goes on fire, people generally aren’t hurt so it’s not news whilst bike/scooter battery fires occur indoors, people have died and that’s news.
That was the fairly obvious answer.