“Of the 3000 cars onboard, 25 are electric and one of those has apparently set light to the whole cargo”

BULLSHIT!

Nobody said so.

But “journalists” nowadays are full of shit and all reporting “currently there’s no proof that some electric car started the fire” (always with #electriccars) - what everyone reads as “yeah, sure the electric car was it!”

meanwhile electric cars are actually LESS likely to start a fire and still nobody in the know has actually claimed electric cars had ANYTHING to do with it.

The article linked in the post says:

A spokesman for the Coast Guard said earlier today that the fire is believed to have started in one of the electric cars. Later in the evening, the Coast Guard said that nothing is yet known about the cause.

So yeah they aren’t sure but it’s coming from the coast guard not the journalist.

German news said there might have been a Short circuit near those cars, once the Battery catches fire you basically can’t put it out.