Ship Carrying EVs Abandoned in Pacific After Catching Fire
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Re: Ship Carrying EVs Abandoned in Pacific After Catching Fire
#2A non-paywalled link:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/other/cargo-ship-vanished-in...
I think instead of trying to click on these pay-walled links we should do a search and comment with a non-paywalled link.
Re: Ship Carrying EVs Abandoned in Pacific After Catching Fire
#3Again? These ships must make attractive sabotage (or insurance fraud?) targets.
> In 2022, a vessel carrying about 4,000 vehicles caught fire in the Atlantic and ended up sinking despite efforts to tow it to safety. A year later another ship with close to 3,000 cars on board caught fire near the Dutch coast.
Re: Ship Carrying EVs Abandoned in Pacific After Catching Fire
#4Any info on the brands of electric vehicles onboard?
Re: Ship Carrying EVs Abandoned in Pacific After Catching Fire
#5A non-paywalled link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/other/cargo-ship-vanished-in... I think instead of trying to click on these pay-walled links we should do a search and comment with a non-paywalled link.
Here's another less spammy article:
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a64967938/car-carrier-elec...
Re: Ship Carrying EVs Abandoned in Pacific After Catching Fire
#6Of the 3000 cars only 800 were EVs, and there’s no evidence yet they were the source of the fire. The headline seems misleading.
Re: Ship Carrying EVs Abandoned in Pacific After Catching Fire
#7Again? These ships must make attractive sabotage (or insurance fraud?) targets. > In 2022, a vessel carrying about 4,000 vehicles caught fire in the Atlantic and ended up sinking despite efforts to tow it to safety. A year later another ship with close to 3,000 cars on board caught fire near the Dutch coast.
Couldn’t it just be that EVs are highly combustible and prone to spontaneous ignition? It may be that we just need better means of shipping these vehicles so that they are less likely to catch fire in an uncontrollable way (maybe with the batteries uninstalled).
Re: Ship Carrying EVs Abandoned in Pacific After Catching Fire
#8Again? These ships must make attractive sabotage (or insurance fraud?) targets. > In 2022, a vessel carrying about 4,000 vehicles caught fire in the Atlantic and ended up sinking despite efforts to tow it to safety. A year later another ship with close to 3,000 cars on board caught fire near the Dutch coast.
Couldn’t it just be that EVs are highly combustible and prone to spontaneous ignition? It may be that we just need better means of shipping these vehicles so that they are less likely to catch fire in an uncontrollable way (maybe with the batteries uninstalled).
The reporting of the 2022 sunken car carrier did not mention EVs, saying that only "Porches and Bentleys" were lost. Even if the cars themselves have no fuel, the ship has lots of it.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-coast-guard-responding-carg...
Re: Ship Carrying EVs Abandoned in Pacific After Catching Fire
#9Of the 3000 cars only 800 were EVs, and there’s no evidence yet they were the source of the fire. The headline seems misleading.
From the MSN article linked below:
“ UK-based shipowner Zodiac Maritime has since confirmed that the fire originated in the section of the vessel carrying electric vehicles.”
Re: Ship Carrying EVs Abandoned in Pacific After Catching Fire
#10Of the 3000 cars only 800 were EVs, and there’s no evidence yet they were the source of the fire. The headline seems misleading.
Even if the EVs were not the source of the fire, they were surely the cause of the firefighting problems the coast guard had. Once ignited, EV fires are quite a thing.