The Morning Midas ship on April 25 at the Lázaro Cárdenas Cargo Port in Mexico. (Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images)

By Aaron Gregg

A fire aboard a cargo ship carrying hundreds of electric vehicles this week burned so stubbornly that the vessel en route from China to Mexico had to be evacuated after the fire suppression system ran out of carbon dioxide and the blaze restarted, officials said.

The ship, called the Morning Midas, was in the Pacific Ocean about 1,200 miles from Anchorage when crew members saw smoke in a section of the vessel containing EVs, according to an emailed statement from Zodiac Maritime, the ship’s London-based manager. The ship is carrying roughly 3,000 vehicles, including about 800 EVs, the company said.

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