With the increasing use of BESS, battery designers need to stay on top of industry demands, design challenges, and, most ...

UL said its latest edition of UL 9540A was updated to include a clearer criteria for cell-to-cell propagation, high-temperature test methods for various battery chemistries and testing protocols for ...

Our Automotive Editor, Andy Turudic, chats with Jerry Shi, GM at TI, about preventing thermal runaway in HV batteries while delivering maximum ...

Underwriters Laboratories (UL) says the fifth edition of its ANSI/CAN/UL 9540A standard addresses technology such as sodium-ion batteries and new use-cases including rooftop installations.

Overheating batteries are a serious risk, in the worst cases leading to fires and explosion. A team including researchers from the University of Tokyo has developed a simple, cost-effective method to ...

A new study introduces the Thermal Runaway Factor (TRF) as a predictive safety metric for lithium-ion batteries, enabling ...

An overview of the thermal safety of silicon–carbon anodes is conducted to identify the determinants of material reactivity ...

And the one question I'm still asked about, as well as still report on, is about thermal runaway. For those who've never heard the term, it's when a single battery cell on an electric vehicle is ...

A group of researchers led by Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) in Germany and China’s Henan University investigated repeated thermal ... perovskite solar cells to repeated temperature changes ...

Triggering a cell at a specific position within a module to undergo thermal runaway. Integrated video camera to record changes to the test sample. Thermal mapping (multipoint temperature measurement) ...