Lithium Titanate Battery

[cruising7388]

Originally Posted by BBQ

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Hundreds of universities around the world are in this battery race.
We can expect dramatic improvements, both in performance and price, to be announced on a regular basis.

No question that this is the trajectory, but I think that there are some safety issues that will need to be concomitantly addressed. What are the black swan potential consequences of a battery in thermal runaway when it has the power density approaching a hand grenade?

[mojoman]

Each and every one of the cells in their packs are indiviually fused.

[cruising7388]

Originally Posted by mojoman

Each and every one of the cells in their packs are indiviually fused.

Did you read the link? Whatever the virtue of the fuses, they didn't much help here. The driver died from the impact of the collision itself. The passenger death was not from the collision impact. He apparently survived the initial impact but his death was the result of impact damage that made the lithium battery explode and set the vehicle afire.