As an emergency first responder in my earlier career, I wonder how this proposal deals with what would be needed when you have to cut off the roof of a car to free trapped occupants? This article doesn’t appear to address that.
You do not want to be running a K-saw through large, heavily charged battery arrays, power cords or anything carrying the amount of juice these things contain. It’s already a hazard with existing electric and hybrid vehicles.
I would assume that this structural battery would be of low voltage and not as big a danger as the huge power packs and +400 volt systems are....................