Car Carrier Fire

[Immortality]

All cars have the potential to catch fire, all cars have batteries and ICE vehicles have lots of combustible liquids on board, sure Lithium batteries have the potential but at this point it has not been established where the actual fire started. Fires do start onboard ships it's just that most don't make the news.

Unfortunately if you do have a fire and Lithium batteries become involved than putting it out becomes much harder.

But this is all pure speculation at this point.

 

[J_D 2.0]

All cars have the potential to catch fire, all cars have batteries and ICE vehicles have lots of combustible liquids on board, sure Lithium batteries have the potential but at this point it has not been established where the actual fire started. Fires do start onboard ships it's just that most don't make the news.

Unfortunately if you do have a fire and Lithium batteries become involved than putting it out becomes much harder.

But this is all pure speculation at this point.

Occam’s razor says that the most logical explanation is normally the correct one. Seeing as spontaneous thermal runaway is a known failure mode of lithium ion batteries then it’s by far the highest probability of how the fire started.

Even on the slim chance that an EV didn’t actually start the fire the presence of EVs on the ship makes the fire so much worse seeing as the fire can’t be put out.

 

[Fu Manchu]

Me reading this thread

 

[lout]

an ice fire can be put out reasonably easy
the fact they have had to abandon the ship
pretty much says an ev is "the smoking gun"

 

[blackvxss]

Also might get expensive for home insurance if you park an EV in the garage.

some insurance company's wont cover home and contents with evs charging in you garage

 

[chrisp]

Occam’s razor says that the most logical explanation is normally the correct one. Seeing as spontaneous thermal runaway is a known failure mode of lithium ion batteries then it’s by far the highest probability of how the fire started.

Even on the slim chance that an EV didn’t actually start the fire the presence of EVs on the ship makes the fire so much worse seeing as the fire can’t be put out.

Perhaps a couple of the crew members were feeling frisky and decided to have a root and, as you do after have having a root, had a cigarette afterwards. (Well, they do in the old movies I’ve seen!). And, perhaps they dropped off to sleep after the said root and the said cigarette started the fire?

 

[Immortality]

Occam’s razor says that the most logical explanation is normally the correct one. Seeing as spontaneous thermal runaway is a known failure mode of lithium ion batteries then it’s by far the highest probability of how the fire started.

Even on the slim chance that an EV didn’t actually start the fire the presence of EVs on the ship makes the fire so much worse seeing as the fire can’t be put out.

Maybe so but it's all supposition.

Lets wait till there are some solid facts.

Fire on a ship in any situation can be catastrophic, especially if there are easily combustible items on board and vehicles of any design fall into that category.

 

[J_D 2.0]

Maybe so but it's all supposition.

Lets wait till there are some solid facts.

Fire on a ship in any situation can be catastrophic, especially if there are easily combustible items on board and vehicles of any design fall into that category.

That’s assuming we can get facts and the whole ship doesn’t do an impersonation of the Titanic like the Felicity Ace did!

 

[Immortality]

Either way, without solid facts you are guessing. Car carriers catching fire has been happening long before EV's came about. No doubt having EV's on board has made the fire worse but at this point there isn't any actual evidence an EV started the fire.

 

[J_D 2.0]

Either way, without solid facts you are guessing. Car carriers catching fire has been happening long before EV's came about. No doubt having EV's on board has made the fire worse but at this point there isn't any actual evidence an EV started the fire.

Well it’s a pretty solid guess. Like I said before ICE vehicles aren’t known for their spontaneous combustion and most ICE car fires would be caused by a crash or poor maintenance of an older car (fuel leak).

Id find it highly improbable that a brand new ICE vehicle left to its own devices with a cold engine on a transport ship could ever spontaneously combust. Whereas relatively new EVs are well known to spontaneously combust and thermal runaway is a recognised failure mode of lithium ion batteries.

I’m not aware of any known failure mode of an ICE vehicle that would see it spontaneously combust when in a resting (cold) state.