Fremantle Hwy: Mercedes EV battery burns ONE MONTH later
The Dutch oven cargo ship, formerly known as the Fremantle Highway, caught fire about a month ago and barbecued itself for over a week in the North Sea. Only now does a Mercedes EV finally catch fire…
Do you remember about a month ago the Fremantle Highway car carrier mega-ship just caught fire out of the blue? Just like that. It barbecued itself for a week or so in the North Sea and only just limped back into Port.
They tugged it back to the Netherlands, a floating theme park of toxic waste and catastrophic structural damage with cars that burned so hot they melted right into the upper decks.
Remember how we were assured the 500 EVs on board just all miraculously survived? Not only that, the CEO of the salvage operation confidently assured the world the EVs aboard:
seemed to be in good condition
Remember that? Then, about two minutes after those assurances were made, this unauthorised shot of a barbecued Porsche Taycan EV (in fairly spectacular condition, admittedly) was leaked.
Well, here's another one of those miraculous survivors, a beautiful Mercedes EQE, with its cockroach-inspired underlying design engineered to survive the floating apocalypse. This maritime automotive hellscape award winner emerged from the Dutch oven (AKA Fremantle Highway) a month later looking stunning in charcoal and white.
It was:
perfectly movable
which was another awesome soundbite from the salvage company boss who is nothing if not accurate, because the fried Benz roach was perfectly movable provided you have a giant crane on-hand to do the perfect movement. It's nothing a quick Turtle Wax touch-up won't fix.
The shitbox Mercedes uses a battery that was in such perfect condition that hazmat crews had to do this:
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