WASHINGTON (ABC7) — Lithium ion batteries power our lives. But every once in a while, they blow up, spectacularly, spontaneously, and with terrible consequences. In the past year we’ve seen an ...

The risk of lithium-ion battery fires will be the focus of Fire Safety Awareness Week this week. The Bermuda Fire and Rescue ...

Palm Beach County Fire Rescue is sounding the alarm on an increasing reality: lithium-ion battery fires. Many everyday items ...

Lithium-ion batteries are an essential technology for electric cars, but are hampered by their risk of exploding in flames during crashes or due to manufacturing defects. One Knoxville tech company ...

A lithium-ion battery from an electric scooter exploded in a Ludlow home, causing significant property damage.

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In one incident, a bin lorry was forced to dump its load in the middle street, in another the driver had to run into a school to get a fire extinguisher.

That seems bound to fail, unless thermally coupled to the entire (non-thermally-conductive) tank and insulated from the outside. Seems like you would at least need a pressure release valve, if not ...

The recent California fires, which collectively destroyed at least 12,000 structures in the Palisades and Eaton areas, had a higher-than-average number of electric vehicles, officials said. Those ...

Hurricane Helene made landfall as a fast-moving category 4 hurricane, inundating Florida’s Big Bend region with record storm surge before wreaking havoc inland with record flooding in the southern ...