Should you be worried about exploding Lithium Ion batteries? 

That guy's prices are beyond nuts. 18650 cells are about a dollar each in bulk, maybe 2-3 times that for small lots.

Yeah like I buy 18650s for 2-3 dollars...

News companies tend to commonly make that mistake.

his pearly white smile went up in smoke

Eric Renrut - 😉

indeed... panasonic batteries doesnt fit the requirements for high drain usage

for a famous brand ? mmm... I don't know...

Wire which are just thick enough to carru the batteries rated current are ideal cause in case of short circuit the wires themselves act like a fuse

look closely at 1:39 it's not mentioned as "thick gauge", but "high gauge". in terms of cables, lower the awg number mean thicker cable core. Example: 18 AWG is lot more thicker than 26 AWG.

I guess dead laptops battery r safer

ordered from NKON if that helps

You should be ok, the 40t has a high discharge rate so I don’t think it’ll overheat. I tested nkon batteries in the past and they are genuine.

not everything thats cheap is bad. not everything that is bad is fake. not everything from panasonic is good.

Lol those are fakes

Just.. don't buy batteries from a brand that has "fire" in the name. Even more so if it's "Ultrafire" lol

it does make sense.

18650 6000mah doesnt exist.

Nah its fine

Try to measure the weight and internal resistance of cells if you can

Turn it up ya wombat

edmond ugljesa - probably the guy printed the label does not know the difference between 5 and 1. I also don't know what these chacracters mean 那又怎样？😂

@@nordic9570 lmao 😂

im the battery and can confirm yes i am fake

all batteries are manufactured in china. just dont be an idiot and dont try to save money on your batteries, that s all.

I've been using li ion and lipo cells for along time in diy projects No explosions so far

You used the battery without the plastic? Or you did rewrap it?

Mine wasn’t unwrapped, short circuited when I took a hit, started making a hissing noise and I moved my face just in time for the top of the vape and the burning battery to go ricochet off a couple walls and then land and start a fire on my bed, I knocked it off onto the floor and ran to get water. Luckily got it put out before it could try to burn our whole San Francisco condo down. Landlord was pissed when I moved out and finally had to show him the burn marks left on the carpet a couple years later

Today i just disasembled a vape that i found in the streets just for the battery i was looking at the battery in my hand and saw that the battery had very bad manufacturing quality i also saw that the negative terminal had a fake ground wire, i was looking at the battery when one of the wires decided to self combust in my hands luckily the cell itself didnt combust it was like the crappy terminal that conected it to the actual cells with no protecction at all it was wrapped in electrical tape (btw my first instinct was to throw it to the wall the whole ground wire burned and in fear of anything more happening i disposed off the battery, also my hands smell sweet after the battery combusted on my hands even after washing 2 times my hand, luckily i didn't even get burnt or blind, my hands are still shaking like wtf)

yup, but those rates withstand only quality ones. and LiPo's are damn unsafe, lots of fire, etc -- and it can happen (less often but really, it can) like out of nowhere. even in normal conditions

No they are not, sorry, NO THEY ARE NOT. Liquid fuels are the most dangerous fuels you can get.

You've bought up some other points that have nothing to do with your original point which is what I was specifically responding to and shall continue with. Yes liquid fuels require oxygen, and there is plenty of that around thankfully (science). When one does have a crash with a tank of liquid fuel, say petrol, the tank can rupture, the liquid run out all over the occupants, on the floor and generally splash about a bit. The nature of an internal combustion engine being what it is there are lots of hot objects about that the petrol can get to and given that petrol has a very low flash point (some science for you there too), chances of fire are very very high. The joy of a liquid fuel of course is it runs under gravity and so will spread around as it is alight, which is fun if you are unlucky enough to be trapped in a car, so I am confident in saying it is not a 'safe' fuel. What makes it a 'safe' fuel is how designers and engineers go about building in safety into the systems that store and control the flow of the liquid, for example using plastic fuel tanks that are much more durable than their steel counterparts and also the use of computers to detect crashes and stop lifter pumps and fuel injection systems dead in their track the instant a crash occurs. So if we apply the same concept of designing safety into the energy storage system application for a car using LIPO than we can say with a high degree of certainty that batteries are much safer because they don't run around and instantly combust in the presence of oxygen. Now I appreciate you have some hang ups with the way electric vehicles are funded and this means you may be looking for any reason, regardless of how spurious, to support you argument but LIPO batteries are used in everything these days, and whilst you do here the odd, and I will stress this, the odd story of a battery exploding it does not happen at anywhere near the level you're inferring.

Interesting video, maybe we will see new batteries in the future, maybe we wont. With any technology, if you use it for what its not designed for it will run into trouble. That's the major point I've been working on here, everything has limitation and working within these keeps us safe from danger. We also need to keep are comparisons, apples for apples, or else run the risk of missing the point in hand.

@@WindyJAMiller you missed the point...they misrepresent capacity and build unsafe batteries so no if you use those for what they're designed for they will NOT work.

relax professor, he has a accent to his speech probably different from yours.

LG HG2? Fantastic 18650s, if you’re not using them for a mech mod with really low resistance builds. They’re perfect for regulated mods.

Anonymous what about liitokaala? Seems like the only serious seller/manufacturer on AliExpress, they have one 3400 mah cell and one hg2 with high amperage like 20a, but 3000 mah for around 2.5 dollars a cell I think?

@@MarioGoatse Yes, that's the ones. I have some Samsungs now too same mah.

yeah elon musk invented new kind of li ion batteries obviously xD this video is a lie.

Chinese *made