This is supposedly a EV battery ejection system to make battery fires easier to control. Pedestrians and cyclists had best say goodbye to their lower legs.
This is supposedly a EV battery ejection system to make battery fires easier to control. Pedestrians and cyclists had best say goodbye to their lower legs.
More or less. Batteries store electricity with a reversible chemical reaction, and one of those reactions is oxidation. It isn’t exactly true to say a battery generates electricity by burning its cathode, but because it requires elements that can readily oxidize with a lot of energy, it’s not tough for that oxidation to turn into fire if something goes wrong.