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  2. EVs that catch on fire are harder to extinguish. What you ...

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    Jake Wark, spokesman for the Department of Fire Services, said the agency hosted a symposium last year about dealing with the lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles. Electric vehicle ...

  3. Plug-in electric vehicle fire - Wikipedia

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    The battery packs are produced by GS Yuasa, the same company that supplies the batteries for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, whose entire fleet was grounded in January 2013 for battery problems. The lithium-ion battery of an i-MiEV caught fire at the Mizushima battery pack assembly plant on March 18 while connected to a charge-discharge test equipment.

  4. These batteries are a rapidly emerging fire hazard. Here's ...

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    New Bedford became a research site as fire experts try to increase data available on lithium ion battery fires -- a rapidly increasing fire hazard. These batteries are a rapidly emerging fire ...

  5. Fire professionals raise alarm about EV lithium battery fire ...

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    Englewood last year used a $12,000 grant from the state Attorney General’s Office to fund training on lithium-ion batteries. The department bought a special nozzle that fits under the car to ...

  6. Are lithium-ion batteries in EVs a fire hazard? - AOL

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    (Reuters) -General Motors Co has expanded the recall of its Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles due to a risk of fire from the pouch-type lithium-ion battery cells made by South Korea's LG. The ...

  7. Environmental impacts of lithium-ion batteries - Wikipedia

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    This type of battery is also referred to as a lithium-ion battery [1] and is most commonly used for electric vehicles and electronics. [1] The first type of lithium battery was created by the British chemist M. Stanley Whittingham in the early 1970s and used titanium and lithium as the electrodes.

  8. Hot topic: Researchers push to reduce fire risk from lithium ...

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    The lithium-ion battery is a near-ubiquitous technology with a serious flaw: They sometimes catch on fire. A video of crew and passengers aboard a JetBlue flight feverishly dumping water on a ...

  9. Fisker Karma - Wikipedia

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    The evidence suggested that the ignition source was not the lithium-ion battery pack, new technology components or unique exhaust routing. [77] The investigation conducted by Fisker engineers and an independent fire expert concluded that the cause of the fire was a low temperature cooling fan located at the left front of the Karma, forward of ...