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Battery Fires & Plane Crashes: Shocking Events Make Us Forget Routine Mass Death

January 22, 2025 admin 0 Comments batteries, battery fires, California, Energy Storage, ev battery fires, lithium-ion batteries

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:34:51 +0000

Recently, there was a large fire at a utility-scale battery storage installation in California. Rather than rehash that story, I’ll just point you to Steve’s article on that if you haven’t heard about it. As you can probably predict, a large battery fire was seized upon by anti-renewable propagandists, who … [continued]

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One Simple Trick To Send The Cost Of An EV Battery Rocketing Downwards

September 22, 2024 admin batteries, battery materials, carbon fiber, carbon fiber battery, chalmers university of technology, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, Europe, ev batteries, ev battery fires, ev battery materials, ev battery research, green economy, lithium-ion batteries, research, SCIENCE, Sweden, united kingdom (uk)

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:45:33 +0000

The UK firm Zircotec is adapting a high tech ceramic coating to reduce the weight and cost of an EV battery pack, leveraging its experience in Formula One racing and other motorsports.

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Car Fires by Vehicle Type (meme)

May 7, 2024 admin battery fires, car fires, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev battery fires, ev fires, gas car fires, memes, research

Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Sat, 04 May 2024 03:50:12 +0000

We’ve all heard it — OMG, EVs/lithium fire danger is SO REAL. Is it, though? If you believe the memes you get from “friends” who try to deter you from driving an EV, it might seem like a big deal. Well, interestingly enough, some data from federal recalls, the Federal … [continued]

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How Tesla Got the Jump on the Rest of the Auto Industry — Way Back in 2006

September 3, 2022 admin batteries, battery fires, cars, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev battery fires, lithium-ion batteries, tesla, tesla roadster

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2022 17:07:41 +0000

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Hose Down the FUD on EV Battery Fires

August 14, 2022 admin Australia, cars, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev battery fires, ev fires, tesla fires

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 17:10:54 +0000

A recent Facebook share by a frenemy of mine inspired me to look more closely at electric vehicle fires. Here is the post: “So if one is involved in a crash, and people are trapped inside, the fire brigade has to isolate the battery before they cut into the car… So the problem with crashing […]