Current：Home > MarketsBatteries are catching fire at sea -Wealthify
Batteries are catching fire at sea
View
Date：2025-04-23 10:13:24
Lithium-ion batteries—used in everything from smart phones and laptops to electric scooters and cars—are catching fire on land and at sea. We talk with a former cargo ship captain about why these fires are so hard to put out and why ocean-going car carriers are at particular risk.
Music by Drop Electric. Find us: Twitter / Facebook / Newsletter.
Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts and NPR One.
For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
veryGood！ (2448)
Related
- Why Sean "Diddy" Combs Is Being Given a Laptop in Jail Amid Witness Intimidation Fears
- When Trump’s EPA Needed a Climate Scientist, They Called on John Christy
- Obama: Trump Cannot Undo All Climate Progress
- Cost of Coal: Electric Bills Skyrocket in Appalachia as Region’s Economy Collapses
- Are Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp down? Meta says most issues resolved after outages
- California Bill Aims for 100 Percent Renewable Energy by 2045
- Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS Only Has Sales Twice a Year: Don't Miss These Memorial Day Deals
- Lisa Rinna Reveals Horrible Death Threats Led to Her Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Exit
- The company planning a successor to Concorde makes its first supersonic test
- American Climate Video: How Hurricane Michael Destroyed Tan Smiley’s Best Laid Plans
Ranking
- Trump invites nearly all federal workers to quit now, get paid through September
- Water Use in Fracking Soars — Exceeding Rise in Fossil Fuels Produced, Study Says
- Energizing People Who Play Outside to Exercise Their Civic Muscles at the Ballot Box
- Tom Brokaw's Never Give Up: A prairie family history, and a personal credo
- The 401(k) millionaires club keeps growing. We'll tell you how to join.
- The Parched West is Heading Into a Global Warming-Fueled Megadrought That Could Last for Centuries
- No Matter Who Wins, the US Exits the Paris Climate Accord the Day After the Election
- 4 volunteers just entered a virtual Mars made by NASA. They won't come back for one year.
Recommendation
The 401(k) millionaires club keeps growing. We'll tell you how to join.
Love Is Blind's Paul Peden Reveals New Romance After Micah Lussier Breakup
Fossil Fuel Emissions Push Greenhouse Gas Indicators to Record High in May
Woman allegedly shoots Uber driver, thinking he kidnapped her and was taking her to Mexico
Questlove charts 50 years of SNL musical hits (and misses)
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter Diagnosed With Dementia
Keystone XL Pipeline Hit with New Delay: Judge Orders Environmental Review
Energizing People Who Play Outside to Exercise Their Civic Muscles at the Ballot Box