• mondoman712@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    The article linked in the post says:

    A spokesman for the Coast Guard said earlier today that the fire is believed to have started in one of the electric cars. Later in the evening, the Coast Guard said that nothing is yet known about the cause.

    So yeah they aren’t sure but it’s coming from the coast guard not the journalist.

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      1 year ago

      Other people actually reported that coast guard not only responded with “we don’t know anything yet”, but also with “nobody of us would have told you a cause and we don’t know who did”

      I’ve not seen any proof apart from wild speculation by owner/journalists yet.

      And yes, the owner too pointed at electric cars - but neither people on board nor anybody near the ship was telling about that. So I’d guess that’s just repeating headlines too.

      My point was: don’t claim “maybe it was electric cars”! because people don’t understand “maybe”

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      1 year ago

      German news said there might have been a Short circuit near those cars, once the Battery catches fire you basically can’t put it out.

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      1 year ago

      Its easy to put out car fires but when it comes to the batteries EVs have its a different game. Entirely possible it started with one or with something else. But once an EV is on fire and the batteries go, theyll need special equipment and training to put that out. Likely they didnt have those.