Isn’t it the other way around?
Whenever there is a fire onboard a PCTC, RoRo or RoPax with any Evs onboard, it appears to be ALWAYS assumed that the EVs are the cause of the fire.
When proven otherwise it is no longer news and gets very little if any mentioning in the media.
The problem is more that WHEN there is a fire involving EVs it is much harder to extinguish by conventional means (i.e. CO2, foam or even water flooding)
Hence the instruction to abandon ship, rather than stay to fight the fire.
The problem is thus that effective means to extinguish an EV fire is not yet available on the ships that carry them, nor readily available to install on ships.
Alternatively; develop batteries that is not as difficult to extinguish if they catch fires.
That is surprising. There must be something wrong with the EVs in Florida.
Here in Norway we have the greatest density of EV per capita in the world.
We also have frequent rain, snow and ice, and the roads are not always the best.
Yet without having EV bursting into flame everywhere.
PS> We also have a large number of electric RoPax ferries that carries all those EVs across fjords and along the coast, but somehow there doesn’t appear to be a major problem with EV fires, neither on the ferries nor on the roads.