UL Research Institutes Releases New Evidence-Based Report Examining Electric Vehicle Fires, Including Tactical Considerations for Firefighters
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/PRNewswire/ -- UL Research Institutes' Fire Safety Research Institute today released a new report, "Full-Scale Electric Vehicle Fire Experiments and...

This was the first link I could find, but I saw this on the Ms. Go Electric YouTube channel.

"Key findings from the report include:

Expect similar fire behavior and hazards from EVs and gas vehicles

Data from free-burn experiments concluded that EV and ICEV fires are similar in fire growth rate, peak fire size, and fire duration. On average, EVs released more total energy, attributed to greater vehicle mass."

  • Apollo98@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    16 days ago

    I’d be curious to see the results from testing LFP batteries, which they didn’t include in this study because they’re not as common yet.

    • betanumerus@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      15 days ago

      I’m pretty sure none of the fires are from LFP batteries, and you can see it as good news that LFP’s share of EV battery deployments was over 55% in 2025, up from nearly 50% in 2024, and the IEA notes this share is expected to keep rising in 2026.

      • sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip
        4·
        15 days ago

        LFP market share for new vehicles has grown very quickly in the last 5 years. It’s both safer and cheaper than the previously dominant chemistry of NMC, so it’s a no-brainer for stationary batteries, and cheaper cars, and the energy density is catching up to NMC by adding some manganese in the cathode, to where the related LMFP chemistry might become the dominant chemistry in higher priced performance vehicles.