A Norwegian transport firm doesn’t take electrical automobiles on board for security causes. Different transport firms welcome Stromer. However now one other firm is reporting security considerations, at the least for used electrical autos.
The ban on electrical automobiles on Norwegian ships from a smaller however well-known transport firm has made waves within the electrical automotive scene. Havila Voyages doesn’t transport electrical and hybrid autos as a result of battery fireplace hazards. With lithium-ion batteries, the fireplace is so tough to extinguish that big quantities of water are required and extremely poisonous vapors are produced. On a passenger ship that will after all be an enormous threat that the transport firm apparently doesn’t need to take.
The precise background to the precautionary measure, which is inflicting plenty of bother within the electrical automotive foyer, is the spectacular fireplace on the automotive freighter “Felicity Ace”. The ship burned out utterly at sea in February 2022 and sank. An ignited electrical automotive battery was suspected to be the reason for the fireplace. As well as, the batteries of quite a few electrical autos fueled the fireplace so severely that every one makes an attempt to place it out have been in useless.
In response to a report by “Automobilwoche”, a second firm has now introduced restrictions on electrical autos on board. Nonetheless, solely used autos are affected. “Certainly one of our different measures is that we don’t transport any used electrical automobiles, as they pose a better fireplace threat than totally electrical new autos as a result of potential battery defects,” says Sebjørn Dahl from “Höegh Autoliner” at “Automobilwoche”.
Explosive: Höegh Autoliner operates 50 massive automotive ferries that transport, amongst different issues, new VW and BMW automobiles. The corporate can hardly afford to overlook out on this deal, as a result of by 2035 on the newest, a lot earlier at VW, there’ll solely be new electrical automobiles for the EU market. The electrical ban subsequently doesn’t apply to new autos. “There are extremely developed smoke and fireplace alarms on our ships, and our crew is specifically skilled to detect and extinguish a potential fireplace at lightning velocity,” Dahl continues.
By the way, not all transport firms are restrictive in coping with electrical autos. The TT-Line takes a totally completely different strategy and even presents charging stations for the crossing. “The charging station at which your electrical automotive is charged throughout your crossing will depend on the utilization and availability of the respective departure. Allocation is the duty of the loading officer. The plugs of the 2 charging stations are appropriate with all connections of the electrical automobiles,” says the corporate on its web site.
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