Originally Posted by
n5296s
Very sad, but why would an electric aircraft catch fire?
Possibly because they were high powered Li-ion batteries and short circuited in the accident.
Near here at an industrial estate at Royan, a company built an electric Cr-Cri , but in carbon fibre. Then went on to build an electric tandem twin trainer which had an endurance of 45 min. Looked good and tested well. But AirBus pulled the funding, so not going into production.
IIRR, the Cri-Cri had four motors, two on each side, back to back.