Fire Safety Of Battery-Electric Vehicles

AnonW

February 18

I notice that there has been talk of fires in battery-electric vehicles on this blog.

So I thought I'd put up a post with an appropriate topic.

There are some things that already could worry me.

Vivarail had a fire early on.
The Merseyrail Class 777 trains go in the tunnels under Liverpool.
The new Piccadilly Line trains will have batteries.
Did electric vehicle batteries contribute to the ferocity of the fire in the Luton Airport car park?
Fire brigades are getting very worried about e-scooter and e-bike fires.
This page on the Internet gives details of recent BESS fires.
Do we investigate fires and publish the results properly?

I have some questions.

Would it be sensible to have nationwide database of all batteries?
Should we use more non-lithium methods in large stationary batteries?
Should we use more capacitors?
Should we make it a criminal offence to use a non-compliant e-bike or e-scooter?

One half of me says yes and the other says no, to some of these questions.