Posted on 02/19/2022 3:42:45 AM PST by fruser1
Rescuers are racing to salvage a US-bound cargo ship in the Atlantic engulfed in flames with 4,000 cars on board including Bentleys, Audis and Lamborghinis.
The operation is taking place off the Azores archipelago where the 'Felicity Ace' cargo ship caught ablaze at sea on Wednesday.
Lithium-ion batteries in the electric cars on board have caught fire and the blaze requires specialist equipment to extinguish. Investigators are probing whether the batteries started the onboard inferno.
The ship is still ablaze and plumes of white smoke are billowing from the vessel as a Portuguese navy ship works to stop it sinking with the 3,965 Volkswagen AG vehicles on board, including 1,100 Porches and 189 Bentleys, thought to be worth a combined £120 million.
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LMAO!
“Perhaps in the future, they’ll have the batteries added after they reach their destinations, “
How will they ship the batteries?
I read that here. Everybody on FReep has made that assumption. Out in the world, nobody has said any such thing.
“...what Ralph Nader would say about EVs.”
He never learned how to drive and would never get into anything smaller than a Buick Roadmaster - safer for passengers like him, you see. YOUR safety was and is of no concern to him.
John Voight the dentist?
“How will they ship the batteries?”
Probably pack them on a smaller boat with good escape means, and if the boat lights up, so be it, still only 10% of the loss for the same load of batteries.
To produce one electric car battery, 500 metric tons of earth must be mined, processed and refined. Not very environmentally friendly
LOL!
“ QUESTION: How many gasoline engines explode on its own like that?”
We’ll there was a plane that blew up over Queens due to fuel catching fire. Or was that a missile that was covered up?
The original MSM news story made no mention of electric cars, just “Porsches and Volkswagens”
From the begining, they had to know it was a Battery fire.
Had a 68 Corvair, loved it.
“If Nader had been alive in the nineteenth century he’d have damned the horse-and-buggy.”
Living during the era of the horse, the dirt streets were wet with horse piss. Everywhere probably smelled. Are people always sit back and think how nice it would have been to have street sweepers keeping the place clean, in reality they were picking up although road apples that’s why they were employed to begin with.
There are several books out concerning the era the United States during the 1800s particularly in urban areas and particularly because of all the horses and other animals that they kept within the confines of the city to move people around with and to provide them with fresh eggs and milk and trucked nothing in from 200 miles out.
If you put an Eveready under your pillow before you go to bed, then the EV Fairy will deliver a complete battery pack while you sleep.
As mundane a source as Yahoo News states there are batteries on fire and require special equipment to extinguish.
That was the first thing I thought of.
Imagine the insurance costs
Yah, but there's gotta be a unicorn involved in the process somewhere.
Just think, if it sinks some day an archaeologist will find
it and release a statement to the press...
Prof. Bla-blah discovers sunken vessel carrying hundreds
of ancient transportation devices. scholars link them
to the remains of “paved” lanes mysteriously connecting
ruined cities. No horses skeletons were found in the wreck
so scientists surmise that the “cars” were from the fabled
“industrial” age.
Ramifications? None of these types of fires have caused the slightest pause in this headlong rush to save the planet.
I sure want one of those things in my garage with its aging battery being charged. Looks to me like the only safe place to park one is in the middle of lots of concrete or gravel.
Save the REAL cars from those rolling incendiary devices.
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