Fire in the hole!

[Journeyman]

Electric Motorcycle Ignites In Traffic, Burns To The Ground

 

[idk]

That fire started very quickly and then wouldn't go out. Quick to anger and slow to forgive is the wrong way round.

 

[TheKid]

I thought it said Fire in Hotel

 

[JRock]

Lithium Ion batteries, which those probably are, are latent fire bombs.
Puncture one, like if you crash the bike, and this is what might happen:

But that video didn't show any crash.
Just excellent manufacturing techniques, I guess.

Newer technologies prevent it, but that's not widely available yet.

 

[barbagris]

I can tell you here and now - If you puncture Automotive grade Lithium Iron Phosphate battery cells - They do NOT ignite.

I wanted to see what was inside one. 8aH cell.

The way to get them to smoke is overload them.

 

[JRock]

What to you suppose happened to the bike in that video?

 

[barbagris]

What to you suppose happened to the bike in that video?

I don't suppose. Show me all the data and I'll come to an informed opinion.

 

[breeze]

in my job thats the last thing you want to hear,fire in the hole

 

[Ishrub]

in my job thats the last thing you want to hear,fire in the hole

Sex workers or the unwary can have a similar problem I suppose!

 

[Longrider]

Lithium Ion batteries, which those probably are, are latent fire bombs.
Puncture one, like if you crash the bike, and this is what might happen:

But that video didn't show any crash.
Just excellent manufacturing techniques, I guess.

Newer technologies prevent it, but that's not widely available yet.

You see what happens when you let the compressed blue smoke out of something