Does this mean Transport of EV's will have to change?
Just imagine in future when all cars on board are EV's.
I would say the insurance premium will go up and the rules for transport with EV's will have to change drastically.
It is of course not the EV's, but the batteries in the EV's causing the concern.
There will be a solution at the end, but interesting how they are going to tackle transport in future of Lithium Ion Batteries.
Will Lithium Ion batteries be stable enough to use them in airplanes?
Lithium-ion batteries 'keeping the fire alive' on burning cargo ship carrying luxury cars
Posted Mon 21 Feb 2022 at 1:00pmMonday 21 Feb 2022 at 1:00pm
Emergency crews will have to cool down the ship's structure before boarding it.(Portuguese Navy via Reuters)
Firefighters are struggling to extinguish a fire that broke out last week on a cargo ship that is carrying thousands of luxury cars and is adrift off the coast of Portugal's Azores islands.
The ship was transporting electric and non-electric vehicles, according to Portuguese authorities.
Suspicion on what started the fire on February 16 has fallen on lithium batteries used in electric vehicles, though authorities say they have no firm evidence about the cause.
Freighter carrying nearly 3,000 cars catches fire in the North Sea off the coast of Netherlands
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The Fremantle Highway has been burning out of control in the North Sea.(AP: Kustwacht Nederland/Coast Guard Netherlands)
Owners of a cargo ship which caught fire off the coast of the Netherlands, killing one crew member, suspect an electric car may be the cause of the blaze.
Key points:
- The Fremantle Highway was transporting 2,857 cars to Singapore when the fire broke out on Wednesday
- Twenty-three crew members were evacuated from the ship, but one person died
- The ship is currently close to an archipelago of ecologically sensitive islands just north of the Dutch mainland
Authorities fear the fire aboard the 18,500-tonne Fremantle Highway car carrier could burn for days and threaten nearby natural sites in the North Sea.
Rescue personnel received a call early on Wednesday reporting a fire about 14.5 nautical miles off the northern Dutch island of Ameland.
All 23 crew members were evacuated from the ship, but one person died and several were injured, the coastguard said. It was not clear how the crew member died.
"The fire could still burn for days," a coastguard official who spoke on condition of anonymity told AFP.
"The ship is being cooled to keep it stable," said the official. "Only the side of the ship is being sprayed, not the deck."
Shipping company Shoei Kisen Kaisha said in a statement the car carrier Fremantle Highway, which was transporting 2,857 cars, was travelling to its final destination in Singapore when the fire broke out.
The company told Dutch public broadcaster NOS "there is a good chance that the fire started with electric cars", of which some 25 were on board.
"But we are not entirely sure of the cause; we are waiting for the investigation," it said.
The Fremantle Highway is currently close to Ameland, one in an archipelago of ecologically sensitive islands situated in the Waddensee area just north of the Dutch mainland.
