"raising the question of whether this latest incident is a sign of design flaws, of possible risks associated with plug-in vehicles generally or simply a result of the abuses wrought by extremely rare weather conditions"
That's lousy journalism - not mentioning what the specific weather conditions were, and making it sound like the seawater was some sort of simple throwaway answer instead of the scientifically obvious answer that it actually is.
"Why Did 17 Plug-In Cars Burn?"
"What caused more than a million dollars-worth of plug-in hybrid vehicles, including 16 Fisker Karma luxury sedans, to catch fire Monday night at Port Newark?"
It really should say what the other car was. It's impossible to guess at any sort of trend, because the other car could break it and we aren't told what it was. Was it another Fisker car, indicating a consistent problem with the company in this instance? Were there similarities in the design? All we know is that it was a plug-in vehicle.
Wikipedia, by the way, says it was a Prius: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisker_Karma#Fire_incidents
That's lousy journalism - not mentioning what the specific weather conditions were, and making it sound like the seawater was some sort of simple throwaway answer instead of the scientifically obvious answer that it actually is.
"Why Did 17 Plug-In Cars Burn?" "What caused more than a million dollars-worth of plug-in hybrid vehicles, including 16 Fisker Karma luxury sedans, to catch fire Monday night at Port Newark?"
It really should say what the other car was. It's impossible to guess at any sort of trend, because the other car could break it and we aren't told what it was. Was it another Fisker car, indicating a consistent problem with the company in this instance? Were there similarities in the design? All we know is that it was a plug-in vehicle.
Wikipedia, by the way, says it was a Prius: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisker_Karma#Fire_incidents