Felicity Ace ship on fire in the Atlantic carrying Porsches

[Bognar67]

Could be whole sale value.

Yes. These numbers depend on the financial approach a lot.

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[Bognar67]

What I was trying to say rather poorly was I can’t imagine they put another ship out of Emden before they find the root cause. If there was for instance a bad lot of batteries I could see this happening again.
I get it could be anything but I have to wonder if this won’t impact delivery of cars nearing completion.

Could be easily. But factories will not stop, maybe will be more local (European) deliveries for a while, afterwards more NA deliveries for balance, if transportation capacity is available. Unfortunately this could be also an issue, seeing cars sitting in the port for pick up sometimes more than a month.
And now one ship is out of the game for sure.

 

[XLR82XS]

Maybe some chips/matrix lights/shortage components/etc. can be salvaged.

 

[ejcintr]

My take on that would be that if the problem was so bad that it burst into flames mere weeks after manufacturing, it would have had to be a defect of quite monumental proportions that would be quite unlikely for such a car to ever make it more than a few months of driving without burning up. If such an issue existed, we'd be seeing it on the already delivered 2022's. Well, unless of course it's caused by that new PCM everyone is excited about...

If it is was an ev battery that started this fire- beyond the safety concerns for consumers- it could have a very negative impact on insuring ev transport across the pond. One of the articles quoted in this thread said the boat was insured for 30M and the contents (Cars) was 100M.. if a Taycan or ID in this boat was identified as the cause of the fire (and apparently the EV's in this ship have caught fire further complicating the effort to put the fire out due to the batteries).. the insurance is going to go up... a lot.

 

[Fsudoles]

If it is was an ev battery that started this fire- beyond the safety concerns for consumers- it could have a very negative impact on insuring ev transport across the pond. One of the articles quoted in this thread said the boat was insured for 30M and the contents (Cars) was 100M.. if a Taycan or ID in this boat was identified as the cause of the fire (and apparently the EV's in this ship have caught fire further complicating the effort to put the fire out due to the batteries).. the insurance is going to go up... a lot.

That increased insurance cost will trickle down to the consumer (us) to foot the bill. Hopefully they can get that ship towed to safe harbor and get the fire extinguished and start digging into a root cause…it’s all speculation at this point. I would be curious to know if any of the crew had an idea of the possible root cause of the fire. If it sinks before any of that can happen…

 

[Elroy]

Here's what I just read:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/17/tech/ship-fire-luxury-cars/index.html

 

[Marcad80]

Here's what I just read:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/17/tech/ship-fire-luxury-cars/index.html

Angus Fitton, Vice President of PR at Porsche Cars North America. "We are in contact with the shipping company and the details of the cars on board are now known."

I guess they like to keep us in suspense…

 

[Tornadosailor]

Angus Fitton, Vice President of PR at Porsche Cars North America. "We are in contact with the shipping company and the details of the cars on board are now known."

I guess they like to keep us in suspense…

i think he is talking about bills of lading or cargo manifest showing VINs on board, not how fire broke out.

 

[Hirschaj]

Just got off the phone with my SA. A few minutes ago Porsche informed them that they will be expediting rebuilds of all vehicles on Felicity Ace. No specific timeline was given yet but this sounds like a reasonable approach to me.

 

[Fish Fingers]

More information from Reuters:

It says its the li-on EV batteries are keeping the fire going and need specialist equipment to extinguish the fire.

They are not sure what started it.

Tugs not arriving till middle of next week.

To be towed to a European port or the Bahamas.

'Everything is on fire'

Source:
https://www.reuters.com/business/co...vehicles-catches-fire-near-azores-2022-02-18/

 

[KarlFreund]

Ok, so hundreds of Taycan's might be lost, but how will Porsche replace the cargo capacity lost by Felicity Ace? ie, how much capacity does this ship represent for Porsche? So sorry for buyers who have already waited many months!

 

[Marcad80]

So…. I would really like to know what cars were parked on that deck…. Right there!

 

[Hirschaj]

Ok, so hundreds of Taycan's might be lost, but how will Porsche replace the cargo capacity lost by Felicity Ace? ie, how much capacity does this ship represent for Porsche? So sorry for buyers who have already waited many months!

Global production is down so it’s possible there is shipping capacity in reserve. Pure speculation on my part but this thread has pretty much all been speculation anyway.

 

[atebit]

It says its the li-on EV batteries are keeping the fire going and need specialist equipment to extinguish the fire.

Meh, I think someone told the “port captain” “electric cars bad purple monkey dishwasher” before Reuters got to him. How would he even know?

 

[Climax_F82]

A total of 1,117 Porsches are on the ship. I have the list of the VINs.

https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/threads/porsche-update-sent-to-us-pcna-dealer-personnel.9542/

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