Please lower your flags to half staff .....

What if they all melt down and in the bottom of the hull we find one massive car with 4184 cylinders and 244 wheels and it's awesome? 

pinchvalve (Forum Supporter) said:

What if they all melt down and in the bottom of the hull we find one massive car with 4184 cylinders and 244 wheels and it's awesome? 

Gojira! 

Matt Farah (automotive journalist, podcaster, and Youtuber) had ordered a Boxster 8 months ago. Turns out, it was on that ship.

I thought only British cars contained the Magic Smoke...? 

<ducks>

golfduke said:

I thought only British cars contained the Magic Smoke...? 

 

<ducks>

They all contain it, the British ones just leak more often

since we will be getting :"boatloads" of EVs from Europe in the future , 

Is there anyway  to disconnect the EV battery pack to make if safer ?

Or  do "hotspots" start in the EV battery pack  and thats what starts the fire ?

At least they weren't Broncos.

earlybroncoguy1 said:

At least they weren't Broncos.

Darn shame, it would have been far better if they were

Watch Bring a Trailer in a few weeks for a mound of burned, rusty Porsche 'remnants' to auction for an obscene amount of $$ for the surviving VIN plate  

It is very much in the middle of the Atlantic.  Pretty close to the Azores, it is showing it at 2 knots (barely moving, maybe drifting?).  It's also showing a heading of 94 deg, so heading back to Europe?  There is a tug shown about 70 miles to the south east heading towards it.  This data appears to be almost a day old, so the tug is certainly there by now.

californiamilleghia said:

since we will be getting :"boatloads" of EVs from Europe in the future , 

Is there anyway  to disconnect the EV battery pack to make if safer ?

Or  do "hotspots" start in the EV battery pack  and thats what starts the fire ?

Both.

Discharging at too great of rate can result in fire but also dendrite formation can cause a short so even when disconnected you could get excessive internal flow resulting in a fire.

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I'm reminded of that Titanic Meme we had the other day...

"We here at Porsche understand our customers great love for the simplicity of aircooled engines...please be assured that those cooling systems siting on the bottom of the ocean will be completely full of liquid 100's of years from now". 

Is VW Porsche having a FIRE SALE?

californiamilleghia said:

since we will be getting :"boatloads" of EVs from Europe in the future , 

Is there anyway  to disconnect the EV battery pack to make if safer ?

Or  do "hotspots" start in the EV battery pack  and thats what starts the fire ?

The battery pack(s) typically have contactors at both ends of the pack(s) and, sometimes, an emergency disconnect in the middle.

Individual cells can catch fire and it doesn't take much for a chain reaction.  A few years ago I was at "The Battery Show" in Novi.  Several of the vendors were pushing cell separators that would prevent adjacent cells from catching fire... we laughed because we used LiFePo4 cells that are MUCH safer than Lithium Ion.

yupididit said:

Anyone die?

Crew members are safe.

Cover for the next Hot VW magazine.

If all the citizenry of the Azores are driving new Porsches next year, it was a set up.  =~ 0

All that valuable smoke.  Quick, collect it, Bottle is and PROFIT!!

ccrunner said:

Watch Bring a Trailer in a few weeks for a mound of burned, rusty Porsche 'remnants' to auction for an obscene amount of $$ for the surviving VIN plate  

I doubt any of these will reach the market in car form.

No taxes or royalties have been paid on those vehicles. 

They will be returned to their basic components by dropping the whole car into a crusher.

I've done it with new Volvo's that came loose on the boat in a storm.

In reply to Wally (Forum Supporter) :

Lololol

Whelp, it's true, every machine can be a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough

Lithium-ion batteries in the electric cars on board have caught fire and the blaze requires specialist equipment to extinguish, captain Joao Mendes Cabecas of the port of Hortas said.

Not good.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/fire-on-cargo-ship-packed-with-porsches-and-vws-is-reportedly-fueled-by-ev-batteries/ar-AAU2C4c

Meh, they're just new cars.  They still MAKE new cars.  The only people to cry are the insurance backers.

If it was a ship full of SWB 911s and A2 Golfs, then let's pour a 40. 

Since the crew abandoned ship and it's in international waters, salvage rules may apply... assuming one can get out there before the tug that is supposedly on it's way to tow it back to Europe.