It would be kind of crappy if it was #520...
First (?) Lucid Fire
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Just a theory and based on nothing but there is a DE on Cape Cod and this occurred on the highway from Boston to the Cape. I wonder if this was a DE being sent in for repair to Goose Island.
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The closest repair facility to Boston is in Chicago at this point?
Can they make a replacement DE?
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Why do you say it did not start the fire? What leads you to that conclusion?
Where's that picture from? What the heck is an Air doing on a truck with a mishmash of cars!?!?
Shipping up from Florida for a snow bird?
From the picture you can clearly see all is not well with the cars at the back.
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Are we sure that's the same car carrier? If so, I agree which would be a relief (at least to my wife) who I made the mistake of showing the picture to.
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open the photo I posted. See the three cars in the back burning? the fire started at the rear of the truck.
"Trooper Stephen Whiting of the North Carolina Highway Patrol said the car hauler, operated by Autobahn Transport, was traveling west on Interstate 40. Shortly after 9 a.m., the driver told troopers, he heard a noise and felt a vibration in the trailer. When the driver checked his mirrors, Whiting said, he saw smoke around the rear of the trailer."
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I think I read it was an enclosed trailer. This looks very different
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Ok that's got to be a different incident. This one happened in Bridgewater Massachusetts
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Not the same trailer.
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Those are two completely separate incidents. No lucid in the car carrier truck one, that was posted as an example of how car carriers can catch fire without an EV on board. The Lucid fire is a completely different event and truck. It may very well have been the car since it was a rest stop where it happened (they had a Burger King/mobile/Dunkin’ donuts in one of the pics), unlikely there’d be a truck tire blowout with sparks leading to fire in the back of a rest stop? Might have been a stopover for a delivery or a return for maintenance.
The wheels in the burned wreckage are almost certainly DE wheels
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And yes, the closest repair facility until Natick opens up in September is in Chicago. Isn’t early adoption fun?
