Battery Basics
Button Battery Danger in Public Places
If you are changing a button battery in a device while in a public place,…
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Electric Truck Battery Second Lives
Daimler Truck is the world’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturer, with 100,000 employees worldwide in 35…
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Seawater Battery Damage in Flooded EVs
Recent storms and seawater inundations have raised questions about electric vehicle safety, during extreme weather…
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Lithium Battery Health and Safety
Health and safety is a frame of mind in which we are aware of personal…
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Coulomb’s Law Still in Force at Oxford
There’s an old bell chiming at venerable Oxford University, England. It has been doing so…
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Battery Materials Are Too Precious To Burn
The UK National Fire Chiefs Council represents area managers, and is the professional voice of…
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Power Chair Gel Batteries Safe, Rules IATA
A passenger boarded a Canadian intermediate flight in January 2024. He had his electric wheelchair…
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Thermal Runaway and Personal Safety
We spent our last two posts explaining the phenomenon of lithium-ion batteries overheating, and entering…
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Upward Spiral of Battery Thermal Runaway
In our previous post that we link to below, we discussed what thermal runaway is,…
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Thermal Runaway in Lithium-Ion Batteries
Thermal runaway is an uncontrolled chemical reaction that releases heat into the environment for as…