Ocean shippers playing catch-up to electric vehicle fire risk
Shoei Kisen, which owns the ship, said it was working with authorities to get control of the fire.
One hazard in lithium-ion batteries is"thermal runaway," a rapid and unstoppable increase in temperature that leads to fires in EVs that are hard to extinguish and can spontaneously reignite. Exacerbating the risks is the business model used by the companies that includes tightly packed ships. Auto carriers like the burning ship are known as RoRos, which stands for roll-on/roll-off — the way cars are loaded and unloaded.
"There's no way for a firefighter in protective gear to get to the location of a fire" on a ship, he said, adding the cramped conditions increase the danger getting trapped.also transport EVs, isolating and extinguishing fires is easier as workers can unhook a rail car and a trucker can pull over, said Frazee.
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