I’m not trying to argue with you, just sharing some thoughts. The recent ship fire on The Freemantle Highway destroyed three thousand cars. From the ship insurance perspective an electric car is an electric car. It may turn out the Teslaas don’t catch fire. But I can’t see an insurance company taking the risk, especially when the car can be damaged while loading or unloading. The cars are heavy, and the battery is on the bottom. A slightly buckled loading ramp that represents no risk to an ICE car might ding the battery on an electric car and cause millions of dollars’ worth of damage. Also, a rogue wave or an accidental water release due to a malfunctioning fire suppression system could flood a deck. An improperly secured cargo could cause damage that could result in a fire. The problem of an electric vehicle fire is far more problematic than any other fire. Lithium car batteries burn at 3500 degrees. During the recent car park fire in London that destroyed 1600 cars a battery car burned through the building’s floor. It was hot enough to burn the concrete and the steel the building was constructed from. I just don’t see an insurance company risking letting a carrier they insure take the risk. Why should they?
As far as individuals go, it doesn’t matter how many ordinary plebs like us get hurt or killed. But the first time someone important, like a politician or an actress gets killed by a vehicle fire, it will be the death knell of electric cars.
Granted that anything is possible, that looks like an extremely unlikely scenario when you are setting up to load many hundreds of cars on a ship. I would expect extreme caution to prevent that.