Lee, your point is very well taken. Tesla has a fusible link on every one
of their 7000 cells, for example. I suspect they have all manner of
software and hardware protection beyond that. They have billions on the
line.
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Lee Hart via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
> Cor van de Water via EV wrote:
>
>> I don't charge my car in the living room, but the attached garage is
>> just a layer of sheetrock removed from the living room... In there
>> are a large number of CALB 180Ah cells...
>>
>
> Our ICEs all have tens of gallons of highly flammable gasoline in them.
> This sits in a wooden garage, often attached to a home, with little more
> than a sheet of drywall between them.
>
> Yes, there are house fires caused by a car in the garage catching fire.
> They are rare, thanks to considerable effort on the part of the automakers
> to prevent that gasoline from accidentally catching fire.
>
> Presumably, EV manufacturers also consider the consequences of some design
> error or component failure starting a fire in their lithium battery pack.
> They then include safety precautions to make this impossible, or at least
> extremely unlikely. (If they don't, they're leaving themselves wide open
> for a lawsuit if anything goes wrong!)
>
> I think the risk comes from hobby DIY types that either don't know the
> risk, or choose not to do anything about it. There are bound to be idiots
> that store gasoline in an open-topped bucket in the garage, and somehow
> haven't blown themselves up. Or that didn't bother to install circuit
> breakers in their electrical wiring, and haven't set the wiring on fire
> yet. ("What could possibly go wrong?")
>
> The same type of idiot could also wire up a bunch of lithium cells, and
> use a "dumb" charger on them. It would work fine, until the day that
> something goes wrong. Then he'd have a lovely roaring fire.
>
> This doesn't mean you shouldn't charge lithium batteries inside. It just
> means that if you do, you'd better know what you're doing, and do it RIGHT!
>
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