Could a Giant Fireproof Blanket Be the Solution for Stubborn EV Battery Fires?
Nico DeMattia - Yesterday 8:12 PM
Electric vehicles often get criticized for supposedly catching fire more often than internal combustion vehicles. While there's no data to prove that—there's actually data to prove that EVs catch fire least often among road cars—EVs still get a bad rap for catching fire. That's likely thanks to the extreme nature of EV fires, as they tend to be incredibly difficult to extinguish. EV fires can even reignite long after they're initially put out. However, the solution to putting out stubborn EV battery fires might be far simpler than many of us thought—a blanket.
You can watch in the video below a team of firefighters using a massive fire-retardant blanket to completely smother an EV car fire. The idea is that the fire-retardant blanket robs the fire of oxygen, thus extinguishing it. And if you keep it on long enough, temperatures will stay down and it likely won't reignite.
The video comes from Centro Zaragoza, Spain, where a fire department tested a Bridgehill fire blanket, which is designed specifically for car fires. For the test, they torched a Nissan Leaf, whose fire eventually reached 1,976 degrees. At that point, they brought out the blanket and covered the car. In under 30 seconds, thermal imaging showed that the fire's temperature dropped to 676 degrees. After a few minutes, it dropped to 248 degrees.
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