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Fire fear prompts EV moratorium at high-end Spa City condo complex
Homeowners association at Park Place Condominiums limits number of electric vehicles for fear intense battery fire could spread from the garage

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Fears of an electric vehicle fire have sparked the homeowners association at a luxury condominium complex to place a moratorium on any new EVs parking in the building’s underground garage.

Residents of the Park Place Condominiums voted in November to ban the vehicles from parking in their deeded spots out of concerns the vehicles' high-voltage lithium-ion batteries, if damaged, could heat up, combust and spread flames into the building.

“It comes down to the most basic thing,” resident David Biggs said. “We need to protect our building from fire.”

Yep and this sort of thing is slowly catching on, mostly in Europe I think. You can see why after a Mercedes caught a parking garage on fire in South Korea. Lithium batteries are extremely volatile and prone to thermal runaway despite mainstream medias tendency to downplay it. The main reason for thermal runaway in lithium batteries is EM radiation not external damage to the batteries.

On August 1, 2024, a Mercedes-Benz EQE electric vehicle (EV) burst into flames in an underground parking garage in Incheon, South Korea. The fire damaged over 140 cars and caused a week-long power and water outage for 1,600 homes.

Delgado airport, destroyed more than 200 vehicles before being extinguished and was being reported in the early stages as having begun in a Tesla brand of electric car.

Quote Sources:
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/park-place-condos-saratoa-springs-limits-evs-fire-20063865.php
Google AI answer
https://www.portugalresident.com/pj-police-investigate-massive-blaze-initially-attributed-to-electric-car/

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How does EMF cause lithium batteries to experience thermal runaway and thus spontaneously combust? One of two main ways:

#1 - Overcharge/Discharge

With various impressed external magnetic field intensities an effect was noticed on the charge and discharge curves as well as the charge and mass concentrations within the batteries. With the two-dimensional model starting from 0mT and going to 1mT had the effect of discharging the battery faster and charging the battery faster. With the two-dimensional model starting from 1mT and going to -1mT had the effect of charging the battery faster. In either case an effect on the various characteristics of the battery were studied. With the experiments conducted on the two types of batteries the effect was more profound than subtle. Discharge times were twice as fast and charge times were equally
affected. With the smaller batteries they all generally charged faster under the presence of a magnetic field due to more uniform penetration. In the presence of the field they also discharged faster. The larger batteries would not see the same uniform penetration because only a small area of the battery sees the center of the coil it is placed on

In this dissertation, they found that external magnetic fields significantly increased charge and discharge rates in individual lithium battery cells; like shown in the following image. They also found that smaller batteries were impacted to a greater degree than larger ones. This is likely a reason Tesla is switching to larger battery cells in addition to employing magnetic attenuating honeycomb sandwich battery pack.

Thermal Runaway of Lithium-Ion Batteries Triggered by Electromagnetic Interference
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9025761

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0378775320302172-fx1_lrg.jpg

#2 - Stimulation of Dendrite Growth

Thermoelectric current causes asymmetric growth pattern of dendrites.

thermoelectromagnetic convection occurs in the vicinity of the solid-liquid interface, and vortices are generated between dendritic arms. It is shown that the thermoelectromagnetic convection has a major influence on dendritic morphology.

Quote Sources:

#1:https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/1743

#2:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S001793101930225X

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For continued coverage of significant Airplane malfunctions goto my research board. 46 plane malfunctions since December 22nd. Adding military plane malfunctions to a seperate list.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/Bostons-research-43724

New board dedicated to Out of Control Tesla Accidents. More accidents to to be added.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/Tesla-Out-of-Control-Accidents-46016