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There's 3000 cars on fire in the North Sea
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this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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BULLSHIT!
Nobody said so.
But "journalists" nowadays are full of shit and all reporting "currently there's no proof that some electric car started the fire" (always with #electriccars) - what everyone reads as "yeah, sure the electric car was it!"
meanwhile electric cars are actually LESS likely to start a fire and still nobody in the know has actually claimed electric cars had ANYTHING to do with it.
The article linked in the post says:
So yeah they aren't sure but it's coming from the coast guard not the journalist.
Other people actually reported that coast guard not only responded with "we don't know anything yet", but also with "nobody of us would have told you a cause and we don't know who did"
I've not seen any proof apart from wild speculation by owner/journalists yet.
And yes, the owner too pointed at electric cars - but neither people on board nor anybody near the ship was telling about that. So I'd guess that's just repeating headlines too.
My point was: don't claim "maybe it was electric cars"! because people don't understand "maybe"
German news said there might have been a Short circuit near those cars, once the Battery catches fire you basically can't put it out.
I said there might have been aliens, testing new beam weapons - anything is possible.
we'll never know‽ /s
Nah, there was no green light visible when the fire broke out.
They switched to gamma rays recently.
Ah! Those sneaky bastards!
German news and anti-EV propaganda, name a more iconic duo.
What? Thats literally the opposite of anti EV propaganda. And if anything our news push that stuff.
Its easy to put out car fires but when it comes to the batteries EVs have its a different game. Entirely possible it started with one or with something else. But once an EV is on fire and the batteries go, theyll need special equipment and training to put that out. Likely they didnt have those.
because it's impossible that the other 3000 cars filled with an explosive liquid could have ignited the fire. No, it's definitely impossible, those fuel tanks never leak, and gas vapor never explode
Pretty sure they don't ship cars with gasoline in em, thats extra weight that doesnt need to be there let alone the fire hazard.
The electric cars on the otherhand most likely have the batteries built into the fucking frame.
Tbh all cars have at least one battery. Or it might have been some order random accident that has nothing to do with the cargo. I think we need more info on this
While that's true I was more pointing out the falsehood in the other commentor, and while most cars have batteries lets not pretend a batter the size of a cinder block is the same as one the size of a mattress.
well that and it's different chemistry (lead vs lithium)
…aaaand EVs have those old lead-acid batteries too. (btw: we should finally ditch those for LiFePo or similar)
They dont ship cars with gas in them
This particular ship does. It's essentially a giant ferry that new cars are driven on to, not loaded.
I mean statistics are clear on that one… :D
What journalist?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hembrow
If you read the actual article by a journalist they don't say it's a certainty. Maybe the problem is people like you who can't tell a journalist from a random guy.
did you even read what I wrote?
I specifically said that journalists are writing "there's no proof that it wasn't" and that other people are reading "it was" into it.
It's exactly that. People are unable to read/understand.
Your message is that journalists are full of shit, I'm calling you out because you couldn't identify a journalist if they were writing an article in your face.
Stay mad.