“Or are there an increasing amount of saboteurs out there trying to destroy / rebuild society?”
When you are shipping vehicles that are known to spontaneously combust, there is no need to resort to theories of saboteurs if they spontaneously combust.
Just another entry for the category:
“Never claim a conspiracy exists when simple human incompetence will do.”
Although the fire is still not out and there is concern about fire boat efforts flooding and/or sinking the ship, the presence of 25 electric vehicles (among 2800+ embarked) is drawing attention. Whether or not the EVs are the source of the fire will have to wait for the post-fire investigation.
In addition to problems afloat, there have been a lot reports of EV catching fire in public and home parking garages. I cannot recall EV battery fire problems being this prominent until very recently. Yet modern pure electric and hybrid electric cars have been around for decades.
Is it just a consequence of the increasing numbers of EVs catching up with established statistical probabilities or is there a recent design change/manufacturing flaw causing the seeming uptick in fires?