Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire

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So how exactly does something like this happen? I know EV’s don’t just randomly start on fire, but we’ve seen this a couple of times.

“The vessel is loaded with around 3,000 vehicles, 800 of which are electric vehicles”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/t...n&cvid=00dbe5b4532c4f41b273872eaa754ad3&ei=17


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There were 3,000 cars on that ship (800 Chinese EV's). Most gas cars don't just randomly start on fire either.

They don't know how it happened or how it started, but smoke was coming from the EV deck. It would be pure speculation as to whether or not it was an EV, an ICE car, an eco-terrorist/arsonist, an accident, or any number of other things.

But they do know this:

The ship left Yantai, China, on May 26, and stopped at Shanghai and Nansha, two major hubs for Chinese electric vehicle exports, before setting off across the Pacific, according to Maritime Optima, a shipping data provider based in Norway.

Imports from China dominate the electric vehicle market in Latin America. More than 60 percent of electric vehicles sold in Mexico in 2023 and 2024 were from China, according to the International Energy Agency.
 
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