Bridgehill Car Fire Blanket - Test on electric car with thermal runaway

Check out the Bridgehill fire blanket with thermal imaging. Bridgehill fire blankets are your solution for battery fires: electric vehicles, forklifts, battery storage and more. Contact your Darley representative for more information!

[AniviaS]

Finally there is a usecase for 1sr gen Nissan Leafs.

[margaretmichniewicz]

Blanket passed the test?! But not the car

[das]

The moral of the story is,
We all need to carry 4 firemen and a fire blanket whenever we go for a pleasure drive, in line with common practice.
Problem solved.
Glad you like it.

[handyandy]

I suggest this is all very well for containing the fire, but from the "deprivation of oxygen" point of view, I suggest the lithium fire makes its own oxygen. The blanket might help a bit, but basically you still gave to wait for the fire to use all of its "fuel" up.

[PerryCS]

everyone is forgetting the purpose of the blanket... to CONTAIN the fire so it doesn't spread and burn everything else down around it... you can put the blanket on yourself, you don't need 4 firemen... the blanket does a great job of keeping the flames down. While the fire is contained rush and call the fire dept and you just kept your house from burning down while they get to you...

[plumSRT]

They sent for my plates after I failed to follow an air bag recall. EVs with current battery technology are more of a danger than fragmenting airbags.

[czechmate]

Not to mention what the weight of these vehicles are going to do to our streets and roadways. When you get in a wreck with one it’s going to be like getting slammed into by a train. The smoke from these fires are highly toxic.

[willcall]

That’s impressive. Perhaps all electric car manufacturers should include a fire blanket with the sale of an electric car .

[stevenmitchell]

Or... don't buy an EV until the battery fire risk is more manageable.

[keithammleter]

it is interesting that the fire blanket had to be applied for 40 hours. And the battery could still re-ignite.
Blanket did not put out the fire - it merely contained the smoke and flame, and reduced the temperature as because the flames could not rise and cover the car's sheet metal, the sheet metal temperature dropped.

[alanlangridge]

Interesting that the intense heat didn't 'lift' the blanket and all four tyres were still

[TheByard]

Electric bike in for repair or service at a dealership in my local village S. Vietnam caught fire. The mechanics managed to move into the roadway. A neighboring builder's merchant dumped a digger bucket of sand on the fire. This smothered the fire and put it out.

So, all EVs should tow a trailer loaded with sand and a shovel. Just like boats have to carry fire extinguishers.

[Malpriorvids]

Where were they taking the temperature from? The thermal image looked just as red at over 1, 000 degrees as it did at just a 100 degrees.

[vf]

I’ve seen videos where firefighters have been dousing the fire with water and then the battery blows up….. and to suggest they get near it to apply a blanket to smother the fire?

[joebundens]

The other option is after they contain the major runaway reaction, there have some good testing of dropping the car in salt water. After the battery cools down, there is still stranded energy in the batteries. The saltwater will allow the batteries to discharge the remaining energy into the water instead.

[anthonytruta]

Ev's are serious fire hazards. Just to be safe, I won't park next to one.

[stephenrichards]

Something very strange that. A Li battery doesn't need oxygen to sustain itself

[SteveEddy-odfb]

Wow that thermal cover should be standard equipment in the storage area of ALL electric vehicles?

[tobiasedberg]

For how Long period of time do you need to Keep the blanket on before there is no risk of reignition of the batteryfire?

[joseaguilar]

The thermal blanket only cover the fire and smoke but the batteries will continue burning till all the energy is consumed