Yep, but with one major difference. This is a LiPo-based battery. These are known to fail violently, while the average cilindrical cell (Lithium-Cobalt, Nickel and all other kinds of combinations) hardly fails with spectacular results.
Heat and Water do not mix well with lithium ion batteries; in the AAA, AA, C & D size Lithium Ion batteries - it is the lithium foil which is highly reactive, even explosive when it comes in contact with water.
Li-ion don't typically use a lithium foil, the lithium is often in the cathode and electrolyte dissolved into a paste or solution. In fact, if the battery is not very large, throwing the battery/device into a bucket of water is the best way to handle these fires.
Yeah, except that I don't expect LiPo's to end up in EV's anytime soon. They are only just now making their way into laptops (because they are extremely hard to replace yourself, you can't take the battery out anymore with most new laptops) but as these batteries are known to fail very violently on mechanical impact or rupture of the cell's surrounding, they probably won't end up in EV's soon. They are just too volatile. For comparison: The aviation industry is very conservative and tends to stick to proven technology while consumer-technology is moving on. Of course, not that weird considering the risks involved. The Boeing Dreamliner was the first to start using lithium-based batteries, but they used cilindrical cells as far as I know and though there were fires, none of them resulted in such fierce combustion as shown in this video.
@@weeardguy I've had a single 18650 lipo battery vent in my pocket which sucked, but after pulling my vape out after about three minutes it was over. Scary as fucking hell, but it was my fault as I didn't setup my vape correctly and it shorted. But I can't imagine like 100-2000 of these going off at once I wouldn't want to be 250 feet near them, but good enough it's I don't believe they explode like gasoline does
Nickel-Cadmium is the best battery type ever! Nothing other! It isn’t explosive at all and deep discharge is not damaging the battery. It also has the most recharge cycles (4000+)
For user safety, you can use the lithium-ion battery case when charging or carrying it anywhere ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M2HCI_q9lw4.html
This is a Lithium ion battery. It is different to a LiFePO4 lithium battery. Understand the difference. Electric cars will go ahead on new battery tech, probably Sodium batteries. Then the grubbermint will have even more control over us.
Sodium has less energy density so probably not for electric cars more for power storage in places where weight isnt a concern like a backup battery for a powergrid or something.
LFP are also a type of a li-ion battery (a safer, but less energy dense cathode option). Typically, EVs and other devices use NMC, or cobalt oxide, mainly NMC for batteries. Batteries will improve, especially when technology such as solid state (this removes most of the risk of flammability, plus improves the energy density for more applications.) Though EVs may not push batteries (the hype especially in the US has died down compared to years ago), they will 100% improve. Also sodium can't replace li-ion batteries, the energy density just isn't enough for long term applications.
Rain isn't the problem, thermal runaway is the problem. I have been on board trains running off 25Kv with exposed current collection equipment on the roof in heavy rain and they ran fine.
