Centro Zaragoza tests the Bridgehill Fire Blanket on an electric vehicle

Centro Zaragoza, in cooperation with Bridgehill and the Fightfighters Department of Zaragoza, has tested the Bridgehill car fire blanket.

See the test progress and the temperatures reached in the video.

[colinlegrys]

The blanket is not the solution for extinguishing the blaze, but it can certainly contain it and stop it from spreading to nearby cars or buildings etc.

[Tennouseijin]

2:16 - caption says "battery thermal runaway sound", but music plays too loud to hear anything.

[jimsmith]

Great video. Thanks for sharing. However I don't understand how you could think that music adds to the experience. It is distracting, loud and covers up the sounds of the battery fire etc. Not necessary.

[cranegantry]

In a garage, under an apartment block there may be a mix of cars (electric and gas/diesel). The impossibility of quickly putting out a battery fire may impact on other cars parked nearby as they will be MORE susceptible to the fire. That could affect insurance, safety and how apartment blocks are to be built and managed.

[elpresidente]

Legend says the blanket is still covering the car in August 2022.

[JustWastedHoursHere]

Eight minutes until the battery reached thermal runaway is actually pretty impressive.

[thilokass]

Yes, that may all look like a great solution. The blanket is heavy, you need four people and space around the vehicle to cover the fire so now try this on a car carrier ocean vessel or even better, a large underground public parking garage. Can't wait to see how it will work.

[tomgreene]

We used thermal blankets on the Space Shuttle, in fact I have a scrap piece in my garage. I often wondered if the technology could be used to cover a house when there is a firestorm. Interesting that someone finally made a blanket like this. In this instance with the electric vehicle, they could have covered the vehicle then injected CO2 to stop the fire even quicker. But the battery has been breached, so the lithium would be exposed to oxygen when the blanket is removed, so it would re-ignite, like it did.

[BigMacProDaddy]

definitely going to need a bigger blanket for a Rivian. A perimeter of lead shot would help hold the edges down, going to need something in a windy environment

[MrChrisgilbert]

When Hammond crashed that hyper car that was electric the thermal Runaway lasted for over a week with the batteries. We still don't know how to put them out. That smoke is toxic and corrosive. Keep it under that blanket for 2 weeks and it should be ok 😂

[nofucksgiven]

I’m pretty sure that bad boy put off more emissions in 5 minutes than all the vehicles I’ve owned in my life so far.

[mattd]

Thanks for the video. As a firefighter they told us not to use water for the pollution and so much run off. This seems great is there a investment opportunity?

[justlookingaround]

I wonder how toxic that ground is now under that car? And how it will enter the water stream now.

[kazuu_]

Are the batteries of this Nissan Leaf fully charged before conducting this experiment? Or are they in an empty state? I would like that to be specified.

[johnrea]

The battery bank in that car is minuscule compared to battery storage in modern EV’s

[cornonthecobmom]

My four year old didn’t believe that there’s blankets that put out fires, he was in awe watching this 😆

[BIGBOB]

Great idea, but it seems to only contain the flame, so far the batteries are the issue. They have to come out with a quicker way to put these type of fires to be completely extinguished.

[adriancressy]

That's about the story. The blanket can stop the spread. What about in a ship with 500 other EV's. It's not easy to maneuver around on the deck that has the flaming EV fire and the toxic cobalt fumes. It may take training for the ship workers to act fast and organized with that blanket.

[TannerCLynn]

So it didn't really put it out cuz it self-ignited as soon as the blanket was removed??

[peterlejon]

Here in Belgium, they put the car in a container filled with water. Because the car will often reignite after the fire men have left.