Originally Posted by tdracer
Nope, not 'massive' damage, road debris.
Well, one of the pieces of road debris was a tow hitch, IMHO large enough to cause trouble for any car and the other case of the car burning was (
AFAIK) after a severe crash.
(Googling revealed there was another fire, but I couldn't find any specifics about the kind of debris, however they also said it pierced the steel plate)
Anyway - each of the pieces were large and hard enough to pierce the armor of the battery pack - at that time a heavy steel plate, replaced in later models by a titanium plate.
None of that happened to the batteries in the 787s.