You may regret that, the BBC is no longer a reliable source of news like it once was.
The BBC's report appeared to be quoting the fire officer as saying the vehicle was diesel, but closer examination of the punctuation shows that the assertion was not made by the fire officer and we don't know where the BBC got it from. The Stavanger fire was reported by several eye-witnesses to be started by an electric car on fire but the audio log of the reports was not available to the investigators. Both reports stink of a cover-up.
They may both turn out to be accurate, but as they stand they are at pains to appear to be giving unbiassed facts but actually offer no evidence to back up their assertions. You are condemning Cursitor Doom for mentioning something that is fairly obvious to most people with sufficient knowledge and is quite likely to be exposed as the truth once the fog of misinformation has cleared.
There is a lot of hype around electric vehicles - if they were that wonderful, why would various UK authorities need to give incentives to buy them and force people with other vehicles to scrap them prematurely? That's not a conspiracy theory, it is based on watching what is actually happening and thinking soberly about the possible reasons behind it.