Just remind me how EVs are better for the environment again?

[Salty Spuds]

Ameland rescue: Ship with 3,000 cars in deadly fire off Dutch coast Ameland rescue: Ship with 3,000 cars in deadly fire off Dutch coast

 

[drinfinity]

Good point. Petroleum products never catch fire or spill into the sea from ships.

 

[Salty Spuds]

Good point. Petroleum products never catch fire or spill into the sea from ships.

3000 cars, only 25 of which are EVs, I’ll let you work out the maths.

 

[DXX]

As an ex seaman who’s fought lithium and oil fires at sea I’d go for oil any day. They were lucky there was some wind to clear the smoke from the upper deck.

 

[oldiebut goodie]

Those ships would be impossible to fight a fire in, they are just great big caverns with no compartments at all to separate into zones. I have searched quite a few of them in a previous life.

 

[DXX]

Class D, graphite powder and some other compounds is the only medium that I’m aware of that deals with Lithium. As far as I’m aware there is no automatic drenching system for compartments with this medium just portable extinguishers.
Burning motorways may be a problem in the not so distant future.
I only own one large lithium battery and it got charged in the garden yesterday while the weather was good.

 

[dane]

My first thought was ferries. Reading the reports of this container fire, If you’re on a ferry when a EV car goes up you’re in trouble.

 

[Salty Spuds]

My first thought was ferries. Reading the reports of this container fire, If you’re on a ferry when a EV car goes up you’re in trouble.

Yup or the Chunnel

 

[DXX]

This firefighter / mariner has hit the nail on the head and is well explained in his video. Quite often in the marine world the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing!

 

[oldiebut goodie]

He states just what I said above.