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Battery failure? You're expecting their engineers to design a battery that remains safe after a 70mph crash into a barrier?
by curiousgal 8y ago
Battery failure?
You're expecting their engineers to design a battery that remains safe after a 70mph crash into a barrier?
- jumelles 8y agoYes? Welcome to the automotive industry. Lives are at stake.
- thatswrong0 8y agoIs there an equivalent safety standard for ICE vehicles? I don't think a gas task would do particularly well in the exact same circumstance either
- aslkdjaslkdj1 8y agoGas can't cause itself to combust due to physical damage. It needs a spark of some sort. Li batteries can self-combust from physical damage.
- Alupis 8y agoICE vehicles don't typically spontaneously combust after a crash...
- outworlder 8y agoRight. They sometimes spontaneously combust even without crashes.
- cfadvan 8y agoIf the combustion occurs as the result of a crash, can that really be said to be “spontaneous?”
- acct1771 8y agoNo, just during, when you're unconscious, and not safe in your new car miles away.
- ars 8y agoYes, of course there is. That's why the gas tanks are in the back, and they most certainly do survive such crashes.
- mmusson 8y agoFive days after the crash doesn’t seem unreasonable. I wonder if some kind of inerting compound can be developed for lithium batteries for use by firefighters and the like.
- NickNameNick 8y agoTo 'inert' it properly, you'd have to extract all the energy, which is going to look pretty much the same as burning it.
- jedberg 8y agoICE makers have to design gas tanks that are safe after a 70mph collision, so yeah, it's kind of expected that the battery is safe too.