4 battery fires in a week!
- Wim Jan
- Jun 7, 2021
- 1 min read
Updated: Aug 23, 2021
We are sometimes asked how great the risk of fire from a lithium battery is. With normal use, the chance is not that great. The alarm should be seen as an addition to the smoke detectors in the house. The chance that they will ever go off due to smoke formation is small. But when the alarms go off, you must have them up. It is sometimes forgotten that the risk of smoke is greater than the fire.
This applies even more to lithium batteries! The smoke from an igniting battery is full of fluoride acid, if you get that in your lungs you can go straight to the hospital. You can read more about it in this study:
However, today I read a news report that there have been 4 incidents in Brussels involving overheated electric scooters in a week. That's a lot and will only get more. Not because products are becoming less safe, but because we always have batteries in our household.
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