electric vehicle catches fire

What you see in this video is an electric car at a charging station with a shorting cell setting off a fire. Eventually, all the cars in that charging line were lost. Note the time it took to destroy 3 cars; just over 1 minute.
The first car was destroyed in about 38 seconds. The fire cannot be extinguished with water. No fire department will approach a burning battery-powered car because of the toxic gasses produced during the fire.

No recycling plant will take the destroyed car on account of the toxic chemicals contained in the batteries.