Member

The noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, reminded us in Committee about the ship the “Felicity Ace”, whose cargo contained 4,000 electric vehicles, including Porsches, Audis, Lamborghinis and Bentleys, and which caught fire and sank off the Azores. The lithium batteries in the electric vehicles on board kept that fire burning until the ship was consumed by the Atlantic Ocean. I can see some faces on the government Benches who are not really shedding a tear at the prospect of the Lamborghinis and Bentleys ending up in Davy Jones’s locker, but the issue of fire needs to be taken seriously. This Bill, as drafted, fails to do so.