Webinar - Thermal runaway in EV Batteries

MINIMISING MANUFACTURING DEFECTS in Li-ion battery production stages
Electrification is happening fast and on a global scale. Electric vehicles (EVs), scooters, domestic appliances, domestic energy storage, green energy storage banks and many more industries are making the transition.
However, with the pressure to scale up fast and adopt new higher energy storage battery designs and processes there can be risks. Therefore, the need for exceptional quality is more critical than ever. One major consequence is thermal runaway; which can be caused by contamination in the battery cell, picked up during the manufacturing process.
If a Lithium Ion Battery suffers an electrical short, the short can very quickly accelerate and lead to ‘thermal runaway’, meaning the battery can no longer be controlled and can become a major fire and safety hazard.
Pr. Paul Christensen, Professor of Pure and Applied Electrochemistry will share his experiences and research on just how significant a thermal runaway event can be and show some alarming footage of real-life events.
In this educational webinar, we highlighted the importance of rigorous quality control within the different battery manufacturing stages and how this must be an underlying focus within each design stage moving forwards.
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[@litestuffllc7249]

I see your accurate ; but it must be pointed out to people - batteries do not need to be abused to catch fire; nor defective. Recently a ship containing brand new just produced EVs had brand new never abused batteries catch fire burning the entire ship up. It is critical for buyers or potential buyers to realize there is a risk of fire with EV batteries even if you do not abuse them at all. This is due to dendrites; deposits that can build inside the battery which can short basically at random causing a fire; improved manufacturing can't stop this. Once one battery catches fire it spread to thousands of other batteries and there is really nothing that can stop that fire.

[@peterazlac1739]

It does not matter how rare EV fires are if they set fire to a North Sea ferry or cruise ship the loss of life will be horrendous as it will if they set fire to an apartment block. They are only rare because sales of EV are low with in the UK being under 3% of all current car numbers. Lithium ion batteries should be banned and users made to replace them with safer sodium or solid state versions and in fact they may be forced to do so by insurance companies, at least for high mileage cars.

[@davidpacholok8935]

Sir, just what makes you think solid state or Na based batteries will be safer??? Solid state for example really means LITHIUM METAL ANODE. Lithium (Or sodium) metal burns quite nicely in Air, and Violently when exposed to water, yielding heat, explosive hydrogen gas and caustic waste with a Ph near 14... What could possibly go wrong!?

[@robtmcL12]

No lives lost due to lithium batteries in cars ??? Fact check says that statement is utter bollox. That man's credibility has just been sent down the drain.

[@TheBlacker24]

Yeah, great job on those argument details!