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Hello friends!
I am researching battery fire incidents and know that many in the ES community have experience and knowledge in this field.
Battery fires are statistically rare events, but are trending upwards as the adoption of personal electric vehicles increases. Cheap components that are not bound to strict safety standards/testing and lack of education seem to be driving the incidents that I have looked into so far. NYC has reported almost 200 electric vehicle battery fires this year alone and are considering laws to restrict where you can store and charge personal electric vehicles. I love PEVs, they make me very happy and I recognize the value that they have for commuting. I'd like to dedicate more time to understanding what combination of solutions could work to solve this problem, so that we don't lose the freedoms that we have to encroaching legislation. Maybe more legislation is needed? Spending more money on quality components sounds like the answer to a lot of problems, but people are clearly not doing that.
If you'd like to share a thermal event experience that you or someone that you know has had, I'm curious about the following:
(Close calls are interesting to hear about as well. Maybe you prevented a thermal event?)
-What happened
-What type of vehicle
-Battery details: format, energy storage, voltage, Ah, chemistry
-Was the battery purchased from a manufacturer or DIY
-Were you charging when this event happened?
-Did you notice anything before the event? Hot to the touch? Smoke coming out?
-How did you find out that your battery was on fire? Or was it after the fact?
-Do you have any temperature data?
-What do you believe caused the event: overcharge, over-discharge, physical damage, short circuit, etc.?
-Would you like to share any safety tips/things you learned related to the situation?
Thanks in advance to anyone willing to contribute to this thread.
I am researching battery fire incidents and know that many in the ES community have experience and knowledge in this field.
Battery fires are statistically rare events, but are trending upwards as the adoption of personal electric vehicles increases. Cheap components that are not bound to strict safety standards/testing and lack of education seem to be driving the incidents that I have looked into so far. NYC has reported almost 200 electric vehicle battery fires this year alone and are considering laws to restrict where you can store and charge personal electric vehicles. I love PEVs, they make me very happy and I recognize the value that they have for commuting. I'd like to dedicate more time to understanding what combination of solutions could work to solve this problem, so that we don't lose the freedoms that we have to encroaching legislation. Maybe more legislation is needed? Spending more money on quality components sounds like the answer to a lot of problems, but people are clearly not doing that.
If you'd like to share a thermal event experience that you or someone that you know has had, I'm curious about the following:
(Close calls are interesting to hear about as well. Maybe you prevented a thermal event?)
-What happened
-What type of vehicle
-Battery details: format, energy storage, voltage, Ah, chemistry
-Was the battery purchased from a manufacturer or DIY
-Were you charging when this event happened?
-Did you notice anything before the event? Hot to the touch? Smoke coming out?
-How did you find out that your battery was on fire? Or was it after the fact?
-Do you have any temperature data?
-What do you believe caused the event: overcharge, over-discharge, physical damage, short circuit, etc.?
-Would you like to share any safety tips/things you learned related to the situation?
Thanks in advance to anyone willing to contribute to this thread.