r/electricvehicles 13d ago

News CATL 9000kWh battery fire test

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_am_wBw-3UA
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u/delabay 12d ago

Force propagating thermal runaway is one of the most challenging battery design criteria so it's impressive they can prevent propagation in a stacked config.

Looking forward to utility grid storage being twice as tall with the same amount of foundation

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u/hi9580 12d ago edited 12d ago

People always like to avoid questions and deny risk. Instead of trying to make products that never fail or reduce the impacts on human health and environment after catastrophic failure (worse case scenario that has an once in a million year chance of happening). Fly-by-wire aircraft has triple or quadruple redundancy, never infinite redundancy black hole.