Posted on 03/06/2022 4:14:54 PM PST by dennisw
The Felicity Ace, the cargo ship carrying cars and SUVs from brands including Audi, Porsche, Bentley and Lamborghini, has now sunk.
It had caught fire on February 16 and its crew abandoned the ship.
The largely burned out ship was being towed back to a safe port when it sank yesterday, according to a report provided by the salvage team to MOL Ship Management of Singapore, which operates the Panama-flagged ship.
A spokesperson for Volkswagen Group confirmed that the automaker was aware of the vessel sinking.
The Felicity Ace had been carrying nearly 4000 vehicles from various Volkswagen Group brands.
A number of the vehicles were fully electric, including models from Volkswagen and Audi, something that may have made the fire more difficult to control.
Fires involving lithium-ion batteries are particularly difficult to extinguish.
Among the Lamborghini cars on the ship were some Aventador models.
The V12-powered Aventador is Lamborghini’s most expensive regular production model, priced at over $US400,000 ($A548,000).
Fewer than 800 are built each year and this is the last year the model is being offered.
Lamborghini of America CEO Andrea Baldi recently told the industry publication Automotive News that it could be difficult to replace the cars because each one is highly customised and, as it is, customers wait months for their cars.
The ship's crew were taken by helicopter to Faial island on the archipelago.
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Heh, of course, no one would see it... /rimshot
Paging Gordon Lightfoot.
Shocked?
What was that?
I feel so sorry to see all those beautiful hi-tech cars burned up and sunk. Even more so my heart goes out to the poor unfortunate people who waited so long in anticipation and now will have to deal with the horrible disappointment and somehow manage to go on with life knowing that they will have to go through the entire process of ordering another $400,000 dollar car, never knowing for certain if they will ever even obtain it. Life is hard for some folks.
Electric vehicles.
The fire is out now.
The most important question in, are those cars still burning? Battery fires have no need of oxygen so applying water to smother them won’t work. There have been battery-only EVs (mostly Teslas) that have needed tens of thousands of gallons of water applied over a period of days to extinguish, so the water isn’t what’s putting them out, the water is just containing a spread while the fires exhaust their fuel source.
But submerging, especially in an essentially infinite pool of water, could drain sufficient heat from the fires that they’re cooled to below the temperature of spontaneous ignition of the lithium (or whatever metal it is that’s burning).
Yukky color, belongs on the bottom with other seaweed.
Oh well. I’m not sure I had room in the shed for another Lambo anyways...
Salvaging a couple pof Lamborghinis might leave one sitting quite pretty.
Oh no!!!
There goes my long-awaited Lamborghini. However shall I drive to the grocery store?
Channeling my best inner Marie Antoinette:
“Well, if you can’t take your Lamborghini, just take your Bentley! (giggle)”
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