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What do you think of this story with one person dead? https://news.sky.com/story/one-dead-and-several-injured-after-major-fire-on-cargo-ship-near-ameland-in-ne

• martin_a 3y ago
  I don't think much of it, too little information available at this point. Reuters [1 or see comment above] says the fire started "near" an EV, Sky seems to know better and says an EV was the source of the fire. What's right now? If an EV was the cause of the fire, the question would be, if the outcome would have been different if the car was a petrol car of some sort. Also: Why did somebody die? Why did some people jump overboard while others were airlifted? What's with emergency boats and whatnot else? More from the Reuters article: "It's a very hard fire to extinguish, possibly because of the cargo the ship was transporting". Is that because of the 25 EVs on board or because something else? This whole story is made up like the whole ship went "Boom!" and from one second to another the whole thing was up in flames. [1]: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/one-dead-cargo-ship-fire-electric-car-suspected-source-dutch-coastguard-2023-07-26/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/one-dead-cargo-ship-fir...
  • century19 3y ago
    I've read other people say some cargo ships have been refusing to take EVs, there have been a few of these incidents in the last few years. If so, this looks like an incident that could make banning EVs on boats more common.