EV Car Carrier From China Catches Fire En Route To Mexico

[1srelluc]

EV Car Carrier From China Catches Fire En Route To Mexico

The ship is said to be carrying around 800 EVs as part of a total haul of 3,000 vehicles, but now it's adrift, abandoned, and on fire.

carbuzz.com

The cargo ship called the Morning Midas left Yantai, China on May 26, 2025, headed for Lázaro Cárdenas in Mexico, scheduled to arrive by June 15th. However, the ship will likely no longer make that date, as it is now burning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, said to be about 300 miles to the southwest of Adak, Alaska.

The U.S. Alaskan Coast Guard first publicly reported the incident online at around 2 AM on June 4th, 2025, when it claimed that the ship's crew was actively fighting the blaze. In a statement, ship manager Zodiac Maritime claimed the crew of 22 could not bring the blaze under control and were forced to safely evacuate by the U.S. Coast Guard to a standby merchant ship that responded to help. No injuries have been reported yet. Now, the USCG reports that a Coast Guard cutter is en route to assist, along with Coast Guard air power. There are reportedly at least three other vessels at the scene providing further assistance.

The Morning Midas is said to be holding around 3,000 new vehicles, about 800 of which are reportedly electric vehicles of some kind.

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Not to worry, the fires will go out....Eventually.

How many freedoms do we have to lose to make this right? How many taxes/carbon credits need to be charged to magically offset a burning hulk of lithium to zero net carbon emissions?

 

[Manonthestreet]

EV Car Carrier From China Catches Fire En Route To Mexico

The ship is said to be carrying around 800 EVs as part of a total haul of 3,000 vehicles, but now it's adrift, abandoned, and on fire.

carbuzz.com

The cargo ship called the Morning Midas left Yantai, China on May 26, 2025, headed for Lázaro Cárdenas in Mexico, scheduled to arrive by June 15th. However, the ship will likely no longer make that date, as it is now burning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, said to be about 300 miles to the southwest of Adak, Alaska.

The U.S. Alaskan Coast Guard first publicly reported the incident online at around 2 AM on June 4th, 2025, when it claimed that the ship's crew was actively fighting the blaze. In a statement, ship manager Zodiac Maritime claimed the crew of 22 could not bring the blaze under control and were forced to safely evacuate by the U.S. Coast Guard to a standby merchant ship that responded to help. No injuries have been reported yet. Now, the USCG reports that a Coast Guard cutter is en route to assist, along with Coast Guard air power. There are reportedly at least three other vessels at the scene providing further assistance.

The Morning Midas is said to be holding around 3,000 new vehicles, about 800 of which are reportedly electric vehicles of some kind.

• 
  binmei/YouTube
• 

Not to worry, the fires will go out....Eventually.

How many freedoms do we have to lose to make this right? How many taxes/carbon credits need to be charged to magically offset a burning hulk of lithium to zero net carbon emissions?

Are they even going to be able to put that out......the ship might be a total loss too

 

[toobfreak]

Not to worry, the fires will go out....Eventually.

Yeah, probably on the bottom of the ocean after the ship has sunk. Oh well, another EV environmental disaster... nothing too good to save the planet.

 

[ding]

.the ship might be a total loss too

If the cause was an EV, the cost of transporting them just got higher.

 

[ding]

EV Car Carrier From China Catches Fire En Route To Mexico

The ship is said to be carrying around 800 EVs as part of a total haul of 3,000 vehicles, but now it's adrift, abandoned, and on fire.

carbuzz.com

The cargo ship called the Morning Midas left Yantai, China on May 26, 2025, headed for Lázaro Cárdenas in Mexico, scheduled to arrive by June 15th. However, the ship will likely no longer make that date, as it is now burning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, said to be about 300 miles to the southwest of Adak, Alaska.

The U.S. Alaskan Coast Guard first publicly reported the incident online at around 2 AM on June 4th, 2025, when it claimed that the ship's crew was actively fighting the blaze. In a statement, ship manager Zodiac Maritime claimed the crew of 22 could not bring the blaze under control and were forced to safely evacuate by the U.S. Coast Guard to a standby merchant ship that responded to help. No injuries have been reported yet. Now, the USCG reports that a Coast Guard cutter is en route to assist, along with Coast Guard air power. There are reportedly at least three other vessels at the scene providing further assistance.

The Morning Midas is said to be holding around 3,000 new vehicles, about 800 of which are reportedly electric vehicles of some kind.

• 
  binmei/YouTube
• 

Not to worry, the fires will go out....Eventually.

How many freedoms do we have to lose to make this right? How many taxes/carbon credits need to be charged to magically offset a burning hulk of lithium to zero net carbon emissions?

Predictable surprises. Gotta love 'em.

 

[Paddlefoot]

It will burn till it sinks.

 

[Paddlefoot]

It sank yesterday. Hopefully they were able to pump out what fuel was on the ship from it.

Cargo ship carrying new vehicles to Mexico sinks in the North Pacific weeks after catching fire

More troubles for the cargo ship that caught fire earlier this month off Alaska's Aleutian Island chain. Officials report the Morning Midas sank Monday.

apnews.com