‘No Quick Answer’ to Fire Danger Posed by Electric Vehicles on Ferries, Says Expert

Published on January 1, 2024

A fire safety expert says there is “no quick answer” to the danger posed by electric vehicles catching fire on board ferries travelling to and from British ports. Matt Humby, a senior technical consultant at fire extinguisher manufacturer Firechief Global, said ferry operators were investigating the risk of electric vehicles on board their vessels. If a petrol or diesel-powered internal combustion engine (ICE) ignites on a ferry, it can be extinguished fairly quickly using sprinklers, but that is not the case with electric vehicles, which are powered by lithium battery packs—built into the chassis—which can go into “thermal runaway” for a number of reasons....

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