battery safety Articles
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Ensuring lithium ion battery safety in the Black Friday electrical goods scramble
Black Friday is a huge date in retailers’ calendars. According to the NRF, the Black Friday weekend in the US runs from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday and in 2018, Thanksgiving Day alone generated $3.7bn in online sales. And bargains in electrical and hi-tech goods are high on consumers’ shopping lists around the globe. Just over 50% of consumers[1] are seeking to purchase electrical ...
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Major EV Battery Safety Recalls? Electra`s AI Technology Can Help
Electric vehicle recalls have accelerated as the risk of battery thermal runaway due to faults and failures remains a major pain point in the eMobility industry. General Motors recently took a $1.8 billion hit for battery warranty and replacement costs for the Chevrolet Bolt, according to CNBC, and it is not the only major OEM challenged by battery malfunction. While thermal runaway in electric ...
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BMS System Controlled Object Core Knowledge – Overcharge
Concept overcharging, or overcharging, is a type of lithium-ion battery abuse where the charging voltage of a lithium-ion battery is too high above its charging cut-off voltage. Lithium-ion battery charging usually set charging cut-off voltage, the process needs to use constant current and constant voltage charging method to avoid overcharging the battery. However, in special circumstances, such ...
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Fiber Optic Testing Helps Ensure EV Battery Health and Safety
EVs face unique design challenges in order to be competitive with gasoline-powered vehicles. The root of many of these challenges is in the EV battery pack. Drivers want similar vehicle range per charge when compared to a tank of gas, as well as the convenience they are used to with refilling a tank in just a few minutes. This means battery packs need to be able to store enough energy to go ...
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Take Your Bedroom Off the Grid
In recent years there has been a growing interest in renewable energy. The problem is that many people cannot afford to implement a complete renewable energy system all at once. As interest grows and renewable energy equipment prices fall, people will not be ready to take advantage unless the industry and non-profits undertake serious public education. Redwood Alliance, an environmental ...
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Monitoring Off-Gasses to Guard Against Thermal Runaway Risk with Li-Ion Batteries
Lithium-Ion Batteries Rechargeable lithium-ion (“li-ion”) batteries (comprised of cells in which lithium ions move from a negative electrode through an electrolyte to a positive electrode during discharge—and the other way around when charging) were first described conceptually in the 1970s. Following initial prototype development in the 1980s, li-ion batteries became ...
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The Role of Battery Training in Improving Battery Reliability
Since the early days of civilization, the method by which the craft skills have been taught was through an apprenticeship program. A young person would work under an older craftsman, learning the skills to eventually ply a trade and succeed – maybe not always in the way they might have thought. After all, some of our founding fathers were originally apprentices – Benjamin Franklin was ...
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Lifespan of UPS batteries
Factors that affect their duration and advice on how to best manage them The battery system inside an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) can consist of a single battery or comprise thousands of cells. The ideal would be to be able to accurately measure the conditions of this system to predict failures. In reality, unfortunately, this is not possible due to the many variables that influence the ...
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Leak Detector Lithium Ion Battery
Lithium ion batteries have been in the news quite a lot recently, and not all of it has been positive. There have been numerous incidents of different products from airplanes to hoverboards to mobile phones catching fire during charging or operation. These problems occur when there has been damage to the cells’ structure or to the protective circuit. The protective circuit helps to avoid ...
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FPV Drone Battery
FPV 4s Drone Battery For most drone newbies, racing drone battery is very important to know how to choose a best 4s lipo battery for your drone, multi-rotors are fueled by LiPo battery, they are able to store and deliver large amount of power. Since they're made of individual cells, the battery you buy ends up having the voltage of all the cells combined. So, if you get 3S batteries, they will be ...
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Why does the lithium ion battery explode?
Lithium battery, I think we should be more rigorous. It should be called lithium-ion secondary battery. Li is the smallest diameter and most active metal on the element periodic table. If you are not sure, you can look at the periodic table “Lithium hydrogen helium beryllium boron, carbon nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine and neon…”. Because Li has these characteristics, it is widely ...
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Battery Evaluation – Testing of Electric Vehicles
As electric vehicles continue to dominate the marketplace, several safety standard tests are being conducted to keep the vehicle working condition stable. These safety standard tests involve the evaluation of batteries for electric vehicles, with the distinct focus of testing performance, cycle life, and safety. Battery evaluation and testing elective vehicles are multifaceted and require to be ...
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Lighting Solutions for Rails with Trails
Trails run along many active rail lines to provide transportation, access to transit, and recreational opportunities for thousands of Americans. There is also a growing number of former rail lines being converted into multi-purpose public paths. Safety should always be the primary concern when developing a rail-with-trail. Illuminating rails is one of the ways to make the trail safe and more ...
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The Advantages of Lithium-Metal Anodes
Rechargeable lithium-metal batteries have been the subject of intense research for decades, and today they seem closer than ever to reaching the marketplace. But why are lithium-metal anodes such a sought-after goal in battery science? Here, we’ll try to shed some light on the excitement around lithium metal. Why lithium? Many elements can be used in rechargeable batteries. So, what is it ...
By QuantumScape
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Swollen LiFePO4 Batteries? How To Prevent?
Swollen LiFePO4 batteries are the result of too much current inside a cell of the battery, which causes a build-up of heat and gas. This can be caused by overcharging, deep discharge, overheating to battery or manufacturer defects, or environmental reasons. In this article, we discuss why that happens and how you can prevent that. LiFePO4 battery swelling is one of the important physical ...
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A Brief History of Lithium Ion Battery Development
The Beginning of the Lithium Battery For many years, the only suitable battery for portable equipment, such as mobile computing and wireless communications was nickel-cadmium. Pioneer work on the lithium battery began in 1912, however it wasn’t until the 1970s when the first non-rechargeable lithium batteries became commercially accessible. During the oil crisis of the 1970s, an English ...
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A Worthy Choice: All-in-one Lithium Battery Storage Solar System
Household energy storage batteries have been on the market for many years and left many varieties and sizes to choose from. Due to the rapid development of lithium technology, modern lithium battery systems quickly replace traditional lead-acid batteries, because manufacturers have developed intelligent and modular systems to adapt to different energy storage applications. A large number of ...
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Winter is Coming – Be Ready with Backup Power Supply Alternatives
With winter coming, resilience reaches top of mind. Snowstorms, blizzards, freezing cold fronts, gusting winds – the trends show that each year winter brings increasingly frequent and severe weather conditions. To be best prepared for winter weather-related emergencies and disasters that threaten to disrupt routine operations, forward-thinking businesses invest in emergency preparedness. ...
By GenCell Ltd
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Using the EA8000 X-Ray analyser to improve lithium ion battery performance and reliability
The EA8000 X-Ray Particle Contaminant Analyser is designed to help lithium ion battery (LiB) manufacturers improve the safety, performance and yield of their product. The analyser is engineered to rapidly detect and analyse unwanted metal particles within the battery. These particles are known to cause sudden catastrophic failure of the batteries, often accompanied by fire or explosion. The ...
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Home Battery Storage 101
In order for you to obtain cheaper and cleaner electric energy, the energy storage battery 101 can help you to better understand the related knowledge of energy storage.Here's what you need to know before choosing a solar energy storage battery for your home: What is an home battery storage?Energy storage battery is mainly used to store electric energy from solar energy, wind power or local ...
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