[Yo-Yo]

Anybody looking for a cheap EV?

[butlerweave]

Take it out to a deep spot and give it a burial at sea

[NWFree]

I told you there was no alternative last month

Battery cars are wonderful 🔥

[Revel]

Talk about EV environmental damage. All those toxic chemicals spewed into the air and the ocean. Gotta count the ICE vehicles as EV environmental damage too. But that was just burning plastic. They most likely have no more than a gallon of gas in them when shipped.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Like they say on the internet, they have so many cars they’re practically giving them away.

[desertsolitaire]

I wonder how many of the vehicles are still going to be sold?

[BigFreakinToad]

Was “burning for you” by Blue Öyster Cult playing when it was towed in??

[alternatives?]

I wonder what it looks like inside.

[monkeyshine]

I’m guessing these were German EVs that caught fire. No need to send Teslas from Europe to the US. And the Chinese/Korean/Japanese ones would take a shorter route.

We’ve all seen the videos of burning Teslas. But there are a lot of Teslas compared to other EVs at least for now. We’ve seen Fords and Chevy’s buring at the factory charging station. So it’s only a matter of time before we start seeing BMWs and Mercedes Benz and Porsches and VWs alight.

So maybe the song was Janis Joplin “Oh Lord Won’t You Buy Me a Mercedes Benz...”

[no-to-illegals]

Save the lithium, save the lithium !!!

[wjcsux]

I wonder when insurance companies are going to start refusing to insure the transport of EV’s. Imagine a train loaded with these things bursting into flames.

[Falcon4.0]

I am wondering if Shipping Companies will want to carry EV’s,
and what will their Insurance Companies charge for the trip.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***a Dutch port on Thursday for salvaging,***

Standard procedure here is to send the wrecked cars to Missouri scrap yards There instead of destroying them for scrap they will weld parts of two or three wrecked cars together, slap a coat of paint on it, then ship them down into Arkansas and sell them through the auto auctions as “abandoned vehicles”.

There, you can get, for $45 a nice clean Arkansas title showing the auto had never been wrecked and “Only driven to church by the salesman’s grandmother!”

Guaranteed to run till you sign the papers and get it off the lot.

That was an Arkansas scam for decades.

[rottndog]

Buy an electric car they said...it will be good for the environment they added...

I wonder how much frivolous and unnecessary CO2 was produced in the burning of this ship.

[jonrick46]

Notice that not one word described the cause of the fire on the ship, Fremantle Highway. That's because it has stirred up a response by anti-EV critics. Initial reports by an emergency responder is heard in a recording released by Dutch broadcaster RTL that, "The fire started in the battery of an electric car." That report has not been verified. Because the sensitive nature of the cause, we may never learn the official cause of the fire. My theory is, they are hiding the true cause because of insurance purposes.

[HerrBlucher]

The Dutch oven has arrived.

[Bernard]

If Mercedes had a North American plant, they would not have to put their cars on a ship and transport them across the ocean.

[upchuck]

Last sentence of the AP article: The cause of the blaze has not been established.

Betcha at least on EV was involved.

[frank ballenger]

Towed.....

Hopefully by a boat which was totally electric.

[BobL]

“The Fremantle Highway was taken”

More like “The Fremantle Carnage”.