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."

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    1 month 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.