Hawaiʻi’s largest shipping company told customers this week that it won’t ship electric vehicles to Hawaiʻi anymore. Matson says it’s because of the fire risk of shipping lithium-ion batteries.
Matson has told customers in a letter that it will stop transporting not only electric vehicles to Hawaiʻi but also plug-in hybrids because of the fire risk.
Last month a cargo ship carrying 70 EVs and nearly 700 hybrids caught fire 300 miles south of Alaska. Smoke was first seen from the EV car deck, but it’s not confirmed that an EV battery was the source of the fire…