When was the last time an ICE vehicle caught fire due to salt water and couldn't be put out? Not hearing any stories about ICE spontaneously combusting, but these electric vehicles seem to get fiery far too often for my liking.
Conventional cars catch on fire so frequently that it's not worth reporting on. It's a dog bites man story. A casual google search showed me this report which claims 212,500 vehicle fires with 516 deaths in 2018 in the United States alone.
At one of my old jobs, a car caught on fire right outside my office window and it barely made the local news. I, personally, sitting in place, witnessed a vehicle fire from start to finish. That's how common they are. If you live anywhere densely populated, then there's probably more than one every single day in your local area.
Probably not very many because the fuel supply is transported separately from the vehicle. Which is probably what we should be doing with electric cars. Transport the hazardous component (batteries) on a separate ship to reduce the damage when incidents happen.
A comparable question might be "how often do oil tankers catch on fire?". I don't know the answer, but there have been at least two this year:
We should stick with oil, which never catches on fire.
When was the last time an ICE vehicle caught fire due to salt water and couldn't be put out? Not hearing any stories about ICE spontaneously combusting, but these electric vehicles seem to get fiery far too often for my liking.
Conventional cars catch on fire so frequently that it's not worth reporting on. It's a dog bites man story. A casual google search showed me this report which claims 212,500 vehicle fires with 516 deaths in 2018 in the United States alone.
At one of my old jobs, a car caught on fire right outside my office window and it barely made the local news. I, personally, sitting in place, witnessed a vehicle fire from start to finish. That's how common they are. If you live anywhere densely populated, then there's probably more than one every single day in your local area.
How many of those "conventional" vehicle fires happen on container ships during transport?
Probably not very many because the fuel supply is transported separately from the vehicle. Which is probably what we should be doing with electric cars. Transport the hazardous component (batteries) on a separate ship to reduce the damage when incidents happen.
A comparable question might be "how often do oil tankers catch on fire?". I don't know the answer, but there have been at least two this year:
January: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I34ESUp6mdI
May: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/01/asia/malaysia-coast-oil-tanker-fire-rescue-intl-hnk/index.html