Jay Leno gave CNBC’s “The Information with Shepard Smith” an optimistic outlook in the case of the way forward for electrical automobiles, regardless of the newest warning from Normal Motors to house owners of some Chevy Bolts, advising them to not park inside 50 toes of different automobiles.

“The final days of outdated expertise are at all times higher than the primary days of recent expertise, however we’re past the primary days of recent expertise,” mentioned Leno, the host of CNBC’s “Jay Leno’s Storage.” “I imply, the electrical automobile is right here to remain. I predict a toddler born at this time will most likely drive in a gasoline powered automobile about as typically as you’d drive in a automobile with a stick shift now.”

GM’s newest warning follows the Detroit automaker recalling greater than 140,000 of the EVs produced since 2016 as a result of threat of batteries spontaneously catching fireplace from “two uncommon manufacturing defects.”

Leno instructed host Shepard Smith that, as compared, electrical automobile fires are much less extreme than fires in gas-powered automobiles. 

“I imply the benefit, if there may be one, to an EV fireplace is, it would not blow up,” Leno defined. ”You are in it, you odor one thing, there’s smoke, after which it would not go up in a ball the way in which a gasoline automobile would. That is to not say it is not harmful and, hopefully, they’re going to repair the issue.”

“Jay Leno’s Storage” season 6 premieres Wednesday, September 22 at 10 pm ET/PT on CNBC.