Electric vehicles burst into flames: What's going wrong? | Tech It Out

In India, four electric scooters have caught fire in seven days. This is terrifying, especially when there is a strong push for e-vehicles across the world. What caused these vehicles to catch fire? Watch our report to know more.

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[macharlarosheeni]

i thank wion for mentioning the brand names of these burnt ev"s unlike other media.

[Randomguyinthestreet]

It's obvious from the fire that it's the lithium ion battery at fault. Poor manufacturing, impurities or maybe impact damage from something caused by the customer. Well lithium ion battery always had the potential to be a bomb

[sudiptakiran]

With so many restrictions, the safety advisory in other words is "do not buy electric vehicles"!!!

[MTCoblivsicas]

It's because Lithium is an extremely reactive material. It's very useful for electrical batteries as electricity can flow, however it needs sufficient levels of Cobalt to stabilise it's reactivity and it seems that these products do not contain this.

Cobalt mining is dangerous and child labour is used in the Congo. But all companies need to have it.

[aryan]

Feeling sad for vellore man, he and his daughter lost life because of manufacturing defect.

[mitzyismad]

The irony is that, without subsidies, these things cost more to run and pollute more than modern combustion engines, throughout their production and usage periods. Just like solar panels and wind turbines, get reading folks the information is there if you want to find it.

[jameswalker]

Lithium Ion batteries are not initially designed for fast charging. That and overuse of the batteries can cause a fire.. this is not new

[gavinjanavarderic]

It's due poor heat management. The battery needs cooling when using or when it is riding like gasoline engines where raidiator is given to control the temperature. It's obvious that electric bike need cooling also other wise it can't with stand the immense heat from Indian wheather and heating due to its use.

[keintabak]

A man and his 13 year old daughter died when his EV scooter caught fire. This is horrifying, and that story should have more focus.

[kibawhitefang]

I don’t know about you guys, but my combustion engine car is efficient, don’t need long time waiting for “charging” and is safe enough to say is not a ticking bomb 💣 like those EVs.

[viditaghule]

Yes, CHEAP CHINESE BATTERIES was the first thing that came to my mind! QC is out of question for any company in CCP's China- be it Tesla, Okinawa, etc...

[kenmarriott]

Never worried about parking a vehicle in an attached garage, until now.

[MayYourGodGoWithYou]

Not just scooters but also cars and a number of passenger buses, and in different countries around the world. The fire in Paris (France) was spectacular, raining molten metals as it burned and emitting lovely green smoke. The fire in China - I think - ended up destroying 3 electric buses after the first one went up in flames (luckily no deaths or injuries in either of these two different episodes). I have been told that one in the UK ended up taking half the bus depot with it when that went up while a car that caught fire while charging burned down half of the house as well. And I have seen images of a couple of scooters catching fire in other countries as well, not just India.
Think I am going to stick with hybrids, so far I haven't seen any images of magnificent, alarming and definitely very polluting and dangerous, fires regarding them.

[john_doe_not_found]

If the lithium ion battery is manufactured poorly a short can be created. This super heats the battery in seconds and causes a fire. If the manufacturer is focused on making the cheapest battery possible, the consumer gets a cheap battery. Driving in an electric car at 100kph with your children in the back seat and 500lbs of batteries under their seat, do you want cheap or do you want safe?

[rubyh]

Lol some of the safety guidelines about charging are not practical, do i need to stare my EV vehicle when charging? For how long? 2-3 hours? Might as well buy usual fossil fuel vehicle.

[vehiclesofpeace]

nothing eco friendly about lithium mining. Big trucks still run on you guessed it Fossil Fuels. not to mention shipping the materials.

[davidadams]

I saw a video of a Tesla that had caught fire and it took over 60, 000 gallons of water to put it out. That's 300, 000 litres. It will get worse as more EVs are sold

[brandenburg]

Hydrogen is released as the battery is being charged. If the gas is not vented correctly, a tiny spark will ignite the gas.

[bhalchandra]

The pollution saying is only the transition from primary polluters to secondary polluters. Lithium extraction and silicon extraction creates equal pollution to oil then comes electricity generation which is in India mostly coal generated ie electricity from thermal power plants which creates more pollution than HC fuel vehicles

[mayankja]

Your recommendations include not charge overnight, avoid fast charging and not leave the vehicle unattended while charging. So the combination implies that the user needs to take a day off work in order to watch his vehicle charge slowly?