Burning Cargo Ship Filled with Stupid Electric Cars Still Drifting at Sea, Burning

Andrew Anglin July 28, 2023


Previously: Electric Vehicle Blows Up the MF Boat Carrying 3,000 Cars

Due to the ongoing bad press that electric vehicles are getting because they are so ridiculously destructive to the environment – in their production, their disposal, their operation, and the risk of explosion (releasing poisonous chemicals) – Elon Musk has decided to change the name of “Tesla” to “P.”

People on social media were quick to mock Elon on the social media platform “X,” asking if the “P” stood for “poop,” because “he is taking a gigantic dump on the earth with his toxic waste machines.”

Reuters:

Electric vehicles are crisscrossing the globe to reach their eager buyers, but the battery technology involved in the zero- emission automobiles is exposing under-prepared maritime shippers to the risk of hard-to-control fires, industry, insurance and emergency response officials said.

That risk has been put under the spotlight by the burning car carrier drifting off the Dutch coast. The Dutch coastguard said the fire’s cause was unknown, but Dutch broadcaster RTL released a recording in which an emergency responder is heard saying “the fire started in the battery of an electric car.”

While all logistics companies deal with the risk of EV lithium-ion batteries burning with twice the energy of a normal fire, the maritime industry hasn’t kept up with the developing technology and how it creates greater risk, maritime officials and insurers said.

Why develop risk-mitigation technology when you can just increase your insurance?

You feel me?

There were 209 ship fires reported during 2022, the highest number in a decade and 17% more than in 2021, according to a report from insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) (ALVG.DE). Of that total, 13 occurred on car carriers, but how many involved EVs was not available.

The European Maritime Safety Agency said in a March report the main cargo types identified as responsible for “a large share of cargo fire accidents included … lithium-ion batteries.”

There were 3,783 new cars on board, including 498 electric battery vehicles, a spokesperson of ship chartering company “K” Line said on Friday. Initial reports had put the number of electric vehicles at just 25.

Japan’s Shoei Kisen, which owns the ship, said it was working with authorities to get control of the fire.

So, wait – the boat is still on fire at time of writing?

Is that nuts?

The water it is burning in is incapable of putting out the fire.

The cause of the fire, while still officially undetermined, has raised questions about “what blind spots there are when transporting electric cars powered by batteries – which when they catch fire can’t be extinguished with water, or even by oxygen deprivation,” said Nathan Habers, spokesperson for the Royal Association of Netherlands Shipowners (KVNR).

One hazard in lithium-ion batteries is “thermal runaway,” a rapid and unstoppable increase in temperature that leads to fires in EVs that are hard to extinguish and can spontaneously reignite.

Fire extinguishing systems on the massive ships that haul cars weren’t designed for those hotter fires, and shipping companies and regulators are scrambling to catch up, said Douglas Dillon, executive director of the Tri-state Maritime Safety Association that covers Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

What the hell are we supposed to do to dispose of all of these batteries at end of product life?

Send them into space?

Censorship activist and failed website owner Musk has always been very comfortable dumping trash into space.

He recently announced that he is going to rename space trash “H.”

He also stated that he will now be referring to exploding lithium batteries as “M.”

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