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Episode: #81 AZL Fire and Blasttest for EV Battery casings (English)
Description: Design engineer: are you working on an EV battery these days?Then you know the risks that are inherently involved. It is an extremely rare case, but if your battery catches fire, we want to make sure that passengers are safe.At AZL Aachen GmbH | Excellence in Lightweight Production I looked the design engineers over their shoulders and you can, too, because I shot a video for you.The specimen that were under fire (flame at almost 1200° Celsius) had varying results.Fibreglass-honeycombs lasted merely one and a half minutes, while an aluminum p...