Fire aboard cargo ship in Atlantic Ocean may have been intensified by electric-vehicle batteries from luxury cars like Porsches and Bentley

by Natalie Musumeci, Feb 21, 2022

- The fire on a cargo ship hauling luxury cars may have been intensified by the batteries in the electric vehicles on board.

- The Felicity Ace — which is carrying some 4,000 cars — caught fire in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean last week.

- A port official told Reuters that lithium-ion batteries in the electric cars were "keeping the fire alive."

#LithiumBatteries #Lithium #CargoShipFire #CargoFire #LuxuryCars

https://www.businessinsider.com/cargo-ship-felicity-ace-fire-electric-vehicle-batteries-luxury-cars-2022-2?op=1

I wonder if this is what happened with regards to the #CargoFire in #NewJersey.

What's being done to solve the problem of exploding Batteries on cargo ships

By Wailin Wong, Darian Woods, April 7, 2023

#CargoShipFire #LithiumBatteries #Lithium

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/07/1168581788/whats-being-done-to-solve-the-problem-of-exploding-batteries-on-cargo-ships