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Battery Safety
Stories tagged Battery Safety.
Manufacturing
China wants 18-month car programmes. Its regulator just pulled the handbrake
Surprise factory inspections, a 4.27-million-vehicle recall and a proposal to double mandatory road testing. Beijing is trying to slow an industry it spent a decade teaching to sprint, and its own executives are split on whether that is possible.
Battery Technology
A thousand frames a second: Fraunhofer's X-ray rig watches a large EV cell fail
Fraunhofer EMI and PowerCo can image a large prismatic cell at 1,000 frames per second during thermal runaway, bringing a technique previously used at specialist facilities closer to routine industrial testing.