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Fiery deaths for electric buses and autos continue
« on: July 03, 2025, 06:23:55 am »
Fiery deaths for electric buses and autos continue
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Duggan Flanakin
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July 3rd, 2025
 
A little over three years ago, the Felicity Ace was carrying 3,965 vehicles when a fire broke out in one of the electric vehicles on board the transport ship. The fire quickly spread out of control, and the entire crew was evacuated before the ship sank into waters 10,000 feet deep. The vessel held 189 Bentleys, 1,110 Porsches, and the very last Lamborghini Aventadors; estimated losses for Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines totaled at least $500 million.

On June 3, it was “déjà vu all over again,” when the Morning Midas, which had been carrying nearly 3,000 vehicles – including 78 fully electric and 680 hybrid vehicles – from China to Mexico sank in the North Pacific Ocean in international waters off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain. As had happened with the Felicity Ace, the Morning Midas was victimized by an electric vehicle fire that left the vessel some 5,000 meters below the surface.

The pro-EV bus website evfiresafe.com, as of January 2024, had identified at least 27 e-bus high-voltage battery fires since 2010 while noting that fires can break out in any vehicle. As these two nautical tragedies (thankfully, no one died) indicate, the difference is that electric vehicle fires are much more difficult to extinguish.

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