Lee, your point is very well taken. Tesla has a fusible link on every one of their 7000 cells, for example. I suspect they have all manner of software and hardware protection beyond that. They have billions on the line.
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Lee Hart via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Cor van de Water via EV wrote: > >> I don't charge my car in the living room, but the attached garage is >> just a layer of sheetrock removed from the living room... In there >> are a large number of CALB 180Ah cells... >> > > Our ICEs all have tens of gallons of highly flammable gasoline in them. > This sits in a wooden garage, often attached to a home, with little more > than a sheet of drywall between them. > > Yes, there are house fires caused by a car in the garage catching fire. > They are rare, thanks to considerable effort on the part of the automakers > to prevent that gasoline from accidentally catching fire. > > Presumably, EV manufacturers also consider the consequences of some design > error or component failure starting a fire in their lithium battery pack. > They then include safety precautions to make this impossible, or at least > extremely unlikely. (If they don't, they're leaving themselves wide open > for a lawsuit if anything goes wrong!) > > I think the risk comes from hobby DIY types that either don't know the > risk, or choose not to do anything about it. There are bound to be idiots > that store gasoline in an open-topped bucket in the garage, and somehow > haven't blown themselves up. Or that didn't bother to install circuit > breakers in their electrical wiring, and haven't set the wiring on fire > yet. ("What could possibly go wrong?") > > The same type of idiot could also wire up a bunch of lithium cells, and > use a "dumb" charger on them. It would work fine, until the day that > something goes wrong. Then he'd have a lovely roaring fire. > > This doesn't mean you shouldn't charge lithium batteries inside. It just > means that if you do, you'd better know what you're doing, and do it RIGHT! > > -- > The greatest pleasure in life is to create something that wasn't > there before. -- Roy Spence > -- > Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 585-6737 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell michael.e.r...@gmail.com <michael.e.r...@gmail.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150602/064ac2ed/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)