Tesla the company who brought America the electric Roadster is looking at battery safety.

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If you have not seen this car, it was on Top Gear. I remember watching it thinking it was going to destroy the car as I knew it. I like cars that have engine sizes not ranges. I want a car that sounds like it could knock down a wall by just revving the engine.
As you can probably tell I like my cars. Anyway this electric car company are worried that a “thermal runaway reaction” could take place if the batteries over heat.
THERMAL RUNAWAY REACTION????
Thermal Runaway Reaction, sounds like it cannot be stopped by man or beast. Sounds like once created will never be stopped…..ever. But all it means is explosion. So at least it won’t kill us all just the nearest few.
This over heating has been seen before though, remember the dell laptop incidents where the wrong Sony batteries were placed in dell laptops and exploded. For this reason Tesla are announcing today which Battery Suppliers they will be using and what casing they will be in to prevent them from exploding while carrying passenger.
There are loads of companies out there who use different types of batteries. I have listed the more well known ones below.
1. Nissan – Nissan will use a lithium manganese polymeter battery.
2. Fisker Automotive – They will use batteries supplied by Ener1(Manganese Technology)
3. Crysler – They will use A123 Systems which are lithium phosphates.
4. Daimler – Daimler have bought 10% of Tesla so I would assume it will be whatever Tesla are doing.
Tesla although are at present using a self created battery casing that uses basically laptop batteries but keeps the cells away from each other so that the cells do not explode.
Tags: Bizarre by Dave
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