Lithium-Ion battery packs for EV’s (electric vehicles) are made up of thousands of individual Li-Ion cells. Testla cars have something like 7,000 of them. When charging, if just one cell is bad or a low-load cell got stuck in the pack by some production error, that cell is gonna get hot. When Li-Ion cells get over 230 degrees F they go into a neat little process thats called “Runaway Thermal Event”. The RTE is a lithium fire that burns at stupid high temperatures....enough to melt glass and no, water wont put it out. So...well...it makes a good “got a light” TV commercial if you know what I mean.
You sound informed.
Thank you for that bit of interesting information.
One cell out of place is all it takes. One out of 7,000. People don’t understand risk management if they think that is safe. It is not only a high consequence event it also appears to be high probability over not much time.
During recent Tesla fire in Texas the fire department poured 30,000 gals on it then just quit and let it burn out.
You sound informed.
Thank you for that bit of interesting information.
One cell out of place is all it takes. One out of 7,000. People don’t understand risk management if they think that is safe. It is not only a high consequence event it also appears to be high probability over not much time.