Lithium battery fire

[Neeves]

Lithium battery fire on truck shuts down Hume Highway in NSW due to health risk

Not unusually there is an absence of valid information.

If you read the article fires of lithium batteries in house hold appliances, children's bikes/scooters and energy storage batteries are being bundled together suggesting a common cause for fires.

No child has a 300kg battery for their bike and I'm unaware of many household applicants using 300kg batteries.

But currently no explanation why 15 tons of 300kg Lithium batteries caught fire - but it is a worry.

Jonathan

 

[geem]

Lithium battery fire on truck shuts down Hume Highway in NSW due to health risk

Not unusually there is an absence of valid information.

If you read the article fires of lithium batteries in house hold appliances, children's bikes/scooters and energy storage batteries are being bundled together suggesting a common cause for fires.

No child has a 300kg battery for their bike and I'm unaware of many household applicants using 300kg batteries.

But currently no explanation why 15 tons of 300kg Lithium batteries caught fire - but it is a worry.

Jonathan

Its not a worry.
Show us a photograph of a lithium fire on a boat that has proven to be caused by a faulty lifepo4 battery. That would be a worry.
Your article is headline grabbing news. 300kg batteries are never going to be on my boat. It's irrelevant to how cruisers are using liefpo4. No where in that article does it say lifepo4. You are just adding to the scaremongering by posting it on here

 

[Neeves]

We will advocate on the burning of books next.

Just how many types of lithium battery chemistry weigh 300kg? I can think of 4 different chemistries , including LFP but how many would be moved around as a truck delivery of 15t - I have no idea.

Jonathan

 

[noelex]

The batteries fitted to smaller electric vehicles are around 300Kg, so this may have been what the truck was transporting.

 

[NBs]

The article discussed lithium-ion batteries, but boats use a different chemistry, namely Lifepo4 chemistry, which does not pose any particular risk.

 

[PaulRainbow]

Sounds to me like the truck was using an old generation anchor, with the wrong chain and too much chain. Resulting in the need for an oversized windlass, which needed lots of batteries.

 

[Refueler]

The article discussed lithium-ion batteries, but boats use a different chemistry, namely Lifepo4 chemistry, which does not pose any particular risk.

mmmmmm not actually correct ...

ALL lithium based batterys as in fact do all batterys pose risk ... but the risk varies depending on the format / casing / use / abuse.

Would you believe that a common PP9 battery has been cause of fires .. it has.

 

[dunedin]

Its not a worry.
Show us a photograph of a lithium fire on a boat that has proven to be caused by a faulty lifepo4 battery. That would be a worry.
Your article is headline grabbing news. 300kg batteries are never going to be on my boat. It's irrelevant to how cruisers are using liefpo4. No where in that article does it say lifepo4. You are just adding to the scaremongering by posting it on here

The Gaydon Marina one looks to have been a LiFePO4 battery fire - full report not yet released so precise cause TBD

 

[geem]

The Gaydon Marina one looks to have been a LiFePO4 battery fire - full report not yet released so precise cause TBD

It will be interesting to read the full facts. There are so many things that could cause a fire beside the actual lithium cells. Incorrect wiring, undersized wiring, wrong fuse, combustible material adjacent to undersized wiring or a bad connection. faulty charger and faulty bms. The list can go on and on.
We will only know the reality when the report is issued

 

[lustyd]

The Gaydon Marina one looks to have been a LiFePO4 battery fire - full report not yet released so precise cause TBD

A lot of people really seem to want it to be. No idea what their agenda is. Last I saw that one looked much more like a galley fire based on the location of the damage (nowhere near the batteries).

Not sure the agenda in starting this thread either. It's a yachting forum so posting stories about random lorry fires seems more than a little off topic unless the fire involved technology used on boats.