Dutch authorities say the fire on a car carrier off the coast of the Netherlands is finally receding.
Salvagers have managed to board the vessel and attach new towlines. This should give them better control of the burning ship.
Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull reports from the island of Ameland in the North Sea.
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Get an EV to save the world…………………………………Yeah right!
Remember when all the Prius owners used to look down their noses at the rest of us driving petrol & diesel cars…
sounds like when we have electric cars they will be banned from ferries to stop travel.
Imagine being trapped on a ferry with that kicking off, now imagine if they make up the majority of cars on the ferry not a 10% minority.
It’s a giant Dutch oven, so you can imagine a skyscraper with a car park full of electric cars catching fire, that’s a Shish Kebab.
So the thing that’s supposed to help the environment is actually hurting it? Who Woulda thunk??
best get back to horse and cart or walking save the world lol.
@Mike Breen Oil needed for people to live , and beneficial to return CO2 to the atmosphere for plants to grow faster.
Burning cars , especially toxic EV batteries ,, extremely bad for the environment and totally unnecessary, providing zero benefits.
EV’s should be banned.
@Mike Breen Human society needs it to enable life.
@Mike Breen cope.
Ieftism 101.
Are people actually surprised that the cult of ‘feelings over facts’ gets it horribly wrong yet again?
I suggest we cease production of E.V’s by 2030.
Imagine if these become the majority of vehicles instead of being around 10% they are 90% and one malfunctions in a multistorey car park or an underground carpark at an apartment complex.
@Steel Wolf Imagine it in the 1,200 space multi-storey car park under the Sydney Opera House. It does not bear thinking about.
When will we wake up and rebel against this expansion of EV’s which are clearly very bad for the environment ?
They want an enviro disaster or they would pull it ashore and put a berm around it. This is going to wreak havoc.
That’s good for the environment then!
No worries about the pollution from the fire then.
Underground car parking .take notice
It was reported by the crew that it was started by an EV battery.
Where did you get that from?
@Uncle Phil BY PAYING ATTENTION TO THE NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Frederick Wise lol
Doesn’t even matter how the fire started, having 500 evs on board any fire will quickly be uncontrollable.
Well…a ship with 500 EV loaded with lithium going to the bottom of the ocean….very good for the planet that eh?…globalists be like…”nothing to see here”
What a quandary for the climate religion. They’re zealotry has caused an environmental disaster.
Again !
That’s a long bow you’re drawing there Stevie poo.
How many millions of gallons of oil went up in smoke last week?
There was once a murederous event called the *Holodomor.*
Caused by the exact same kind of morally ascendant leftist hubris.
EV’s are an environmental disaster from the off, this story isn’t on the mainstream media channels, perhaps because it doesn’t fit with the environmental remit that is being pushed. This may lead to bans on EV’s on ships, ferries and underground car parks.
EV environmental solutions…😂
Hope that toxic smoke isn’t blowing towards people
Ban electric cars!!!😮😮
“Buy an electric car to save the planet” they said most ev drivers were virtue signalling or loving the free electric that is coming to an end, who seen this all coming only anyone with more than 2 braincells left, the batteries are a disaster from the mining to the burying back in the ground once they are done
thing is going to melt with all those EV’s ablaze……..
Meanwhile in Scotland 17.5 million trees cut down to make way for new wind farm. 😢
Similar thing in Australia. Not that many. Well not yet LOL but getting there.
The Kind is happy, the population stays passive
NOT GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. NEITHER IF THEY DID NOT CATCH FIRE TO MANY BATTERIES GOING UP.GOING ALL ELECTRIC WILL NOT WORK THE GRID CAN NOT COPE HYDROGEN IS THE WAY FORWARD . THEY ARE KEEPING QUITE ON EV CAR FIRES HAPPENING ALL ROUND THE WORLD .
We need to cut this farce out now. No more EVs!!!!!
Media is hiding EV cars problems.
If people are thick enough to buy an electric vehicle, knowing the problems they create , that is just insanity. They should have their licenses revoked.
Well done for the most ridiculous anti-EV comment I have ever seen.
@mikebreen2890 why is it ridiculous 😑, or are you one of the twits who fell into the ev Trap !!
@Mike Breenwhy so bitter little fella? Did you get misgendered again or did someone not use your preferred pronouns? 😂
They’re as thick as people who can’t spell licence.
@Mark FoxHi Mark. Grammar police here. If we assume Norm is from the US, his spelling of license is correct. If, on the other hand, he is from a civilised country, (civilized for Norm), then his spelling is incorrect.
STOP MAKING THESE EV’S JUST STOP IT THEY ARE ENVIROMENALLY DAMAGING OUR PLANTE ……STOP THE EV CARS NO MORE
ADD ON EBIKES!—–FIRES AND DEATHS CAUSED BY EBIKES WHEN CHARGING INDOORS ETC!?
It is clear there are more and more explosions/fires/deaths being reported weekly in UK and other places —China and America to name two and they are not too hard to find the reports!
So one would hope that shopping developments/blocks of flats etc have outdoor storage for electrical bicycles and that charging is done out doors!?
Very strange,not reported on BBC or ITV news!
It would probably destroy their relentless push and propaganda for net zero!
Raping the environment to save it.
The sooner they ban dangerous batteries the better.
I see these electric cars are really good for the environment 😑
Imagine a multi-storey car park, underground car park in a residential block, under the channel tunnel, on a ferry. A car battery catching fire. They can’t be extinguished straight away either!
Eventually insurance companies will make ev unviable your’ll see.
Funny how my Hyundai Ioniq 4 is half the price to insure compared to my old Jeep Grand Cherokee. And it’s insured for 4 times as much. Maybe the insurance companies know more than you do.
The problem these car carriers have is they don’t have bulkheads as such like a bulker would. They use the decks and deck heads to seal the compartments.
The heat travels up and down through the deck plates and sets the cars on fire below and above!
Electric cars now making there mark on poisoning the planet
One ICE on fire = 10 minutes burning then extinguished, 6 vehicles damaged around it.
One EV on fire = a sinking ship full of polluant chemicals…
Great deal for ecology isn’t it ?
Except it’s 500 ev cars not 1
@working2Bselfsufficient Fire started on ONE but it cannot be extinguished and this is the real problem.
Maybe they should tow it to deep water and let it sink.
VW say they “dont know” how many EVs are on board??? That is an OUTRIGHT LIE. Can you imagine VW not keeping track of every car? All cars are bar coded, and are scanned as they go onboard. Again, VW IS LYING.
This has made my mind up I will never ever but an e v
Better ban electric cars from ferry’s. Disaster waiting to happen . Have way across to Spain,then a fire with thousand people on board. What a mess .
doesn’t bear thinking about. But if you have the Capitan of the Costa Concordia you might be okay.
Lithium plus water, chemical fire
Ev cars saving the environment again
Good old Ev’s hey 😂
No mention of this on other mainstream media.
Sure,unknown??😂 some undercover parking in EU will not allow EVs to enter-food for though
EVs.. what a joke. You have to drive 70-80,000 miles before they actually have a lower CO2 footprint then their ICE counterparts, batteries are near worthless at around 7 years. Uncontrollable fire hazard, with only 10% market share we’re starting to see the issues with these, imagine one of these starting a fire in an car park under a set of apartments especially if they made up say 50% of cars.
That’s EV’s for you and the powers that be want us all to have one if we can afford them. The zealots have caused this mess. I would have thought the incident on the Boeing 787 Dream liner returning back to it’s Airport of departure in Japan because it’s battery’s were on fire, with passenger on board would have been a lesson to be learned but not, for EV cars. If you own a EV I dread to think what the motor insurance will be?
My insurance for my EV is roughly £400 a year. See, the insurance companies go on facts, not media hysteria.
In the middle of the sea / water
And a boat dont have a water sprinkler system onboard 😂
lipo battery’s extremely bad
Each cargo vessel once using its outer sea cheaper type marine diesel is equal to all the cars in England….then we mine at expense & child labour & massive water & chemical amounts to create battery’s that are almost un recyclable then fill them batteries with unreliable inefficient electricity (for the labour material’s & environmental cost of producing panels or turbines) & almost all biofuel (called that so it’s 100% sustainable) but really biofuel is a fancy name for dead plants & animals compressed over 1000s of years also called wood or coal but calling it biofuel means she’ll can sell it as sustainable to idiots..the batteries don’t last long & have a short life & the tyres & brakes cause much more wear & dust than lighter petrol cars which put out co2 which trees love.
This electric thing is a massive scam there worse for the environment especially if you add the cargo ships..
Burt wheee h4ve 2 sav dur planat??!!
You cant put out electric car batteries. They contain their own oxidiser. But thank God we’re fixing the climate with these things. Pollution be damned.
Humanity set its course for disaster the day it started treating scientists as high priests. The vast majority of them are amoral atheists.
Bring back the God of the Bible and the Saviour, Jesus Christ! Problem solved.
Where is the investigation into EVs They proving to be more dangerous to the environment Where are all these Climate Activists
Tell me is this good for the environment? The future , the future !!!! Follow the science experts and politicians and the world will be a so much better place lol ffs
” electric cars are good for the environment!” LOL! 😂
😊… bidens failures 😂😂
EV are a joke this is going to get worse as more go on roads , so much for saving planet
A metaphor for where our societies are heading if we keep pushing net zero and other similar climate zealot nonsense.
Cobalt poisoning for everything !
Ironic 500 EV cars burning, reducing global warming. 👌
Rolling these elec cars out before solving the instability issues is pure stupidity.
odear you eco idiots really are a dull bunch of mothers!
ecological catastrophe! who is to blame?
politicians for pushing this green nonsense.
we need more ads, in fact ,who needs a story, just ads,
Not going to park one of them EVs under my house…
The smoke it toxic and it cant even get it on your skin let alone breath it in.
It’s like watching a movie not knowing who to root for: oil industry or EV industry. Any third option? Nope.
Coal and steam! 😉
Just think if a lot of EVs are in a underground carpark and one happened to catch fire. Forget about escaping the toxic dangerous smoke by caar with a bottle neck at the entrance. Your best bet is to escape by foot and just hope no smoke gets to you.
Shhh. Don’t tell them that!
Not the first instance, not the last one. It is all about protecting the environment, you know….😅
I wasnt intent to buy an electric car but i was interested in in the battery’s as for power storage .
Wel that is over , to many cars , bikes and other devices bursting out in flames and gives greet risk for lives , health and property’s .
Also now we are in a Geo Magnetic Excursion and much more radiations and solar particles enter earths atmosphere that also can effect these devices , this means the world can be one blaze of fires when these devices get spread around .
If a Carrington like event happens you get Geo Induced Currents ( GIC’s ) and these currents are above and under ground .
Buy an ev there great for the environment 😂
A wonderful eco disaster in the name of “green energy”.
Couple of questions…Do these cargo ships have a fire extinguisher system fitted? I should stop smoking I forgotten what the other question was 🙄
They will have but nothing can stop a EV fire that is the problem.
😅 keep building EVs
We (>95%) of the world hate politicians and EV’s. PS. We love the environment.
Cheaper to sink it deliberately…. Watch this space….
If this keeps up, I can see insurance companies will be refusing to insurer people who own these evs, or owners will end up paying silly premiums for the privilege.
Thus any mass damage caused by these will increase every other motorists insurance costs.
not one chirping greta thunberg about the ev dream ?
Can you imagine having an EV and charging it at family home, in the garage? Total Disaster
200 tonnes of car batterys from the ev alone and what about the hybrids??so much child labor going to the sea botem how green is this?and the zero point energy in the closet for 120 years?
Safely salvaged???? Laughable.
This is not the first Ship to which this has happened. Nor are these the first EVs that have caught fire. Regular news about Li Ion battery fires in cars, trucks, busses, scooters, bikes.
Do you think, could it be possible that SOMEONE is trying to tell us something about the stupidity and danger of ELECTRIC cars??? Naw its just a conspiracy theory again.
Climate Change
better keep pumping that oil, we gonna need it
i cant understand why this has not on gb news
Environmentalism will kill the Earth.
How long before one of these vehicles self destructs in the channel tunnel !
Electric cars are a snare and a racket!
Get Gretha Mongberg to put the fire out with her evil spit
This could be your eco friendly electric car.
Still nothing from the UK TV MSM! Nothing !
🤔: Boycott electric cars …
who cares for the dutch. greetings from south africa
Dutch Ulises Belgium
This ship will sink, must sink because no one will want to deal with the disposal of toxic waste. this ship should be dragged to germany and there they should deal with the disposal of the waste they produce, but knowing the germans the ship will surely sink
So much for EV’s saving the planet. WAKE UP everyone, do not cancel the internal combustion engine.
Water has been hosed onto this ship, presumably ensuring that the fire, which reportedly started in a single electric car battery, has now been inflamed by short circuiting the batteries of all 500 cars onboard.
Electric car batteries are like timebombs.
This ship is such a perfect avatar for the leftard ‘EV agenda’.
RIP to the poor soul who lost their life to this idiocy. 🕊
Ahhhh the Chernobyl of EV technology
Mercedes 300d
De nos jours les pipelines explosent tous seuls, les exportations allemandes sont en péril. Ca apparait très clair ce qui arrive
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