The blanket is not the solution for extinguishing the blaze, but it can certainly contain it and stop it from spreading to nearby cars or buildings etc.

Great video. Thanks for sharing. However I don't understand how you could think that music adds to the experience. It is distracting, loud and covers up the sounds of the battery fire etc. Not necessary.

2:16 - caption says "battery thermal runaway sound", but music plays too loud to hear anything.

In a garage, under an apartment block there may be a mix of cars (electric and gas/diesel). The impossibility of quickly putting out a battery fire may impact on other cars parked nearby as they will be MORE susceptible to the fire. That could affect insurance, safety and how apartment blocks are to be built and managed.

Eight minutes until the battery reached thermal runaway is actually pretty impressive.

Legend says the blanket is still covering the car in August 2022.

When Hammond crashed that hyper car that was electric the thermal Runaway lasted for over a week with the batteries. We still don't know how to put them out. That smoke is toxic and corrosive. Keep it under that blanket for 2 weeks and it should be ok 😂

definitely going to need a bigger blanket for a Rivian. A perimeter of lead shot would help hold the edges down, going to need something in a windy environment

That's about the story. The blanket can stop the spread. What about in a ship with 500 other EV's. It's not easy to maneuver around on the deck that has the flaming EV fire and the toxic cobalt fumes. It may take training for the ship workers to act fast and organized with that blanket.

My four year old didn’t believe that there’s blankets that put out fires, he was in awe watching this 😆

I think we're gonna need a lot of these blankets

Yes, that may all look like a great solution. The blanket is heavy, you need four people and space around the vehicle to cover the fire so now try this on a car carrier ocean vessel or even better, a large underground public parking garage. Can't wait to see how it will work.

Here in Belgium, they put the car in a container filled with water. Because the car will often reignite after the fire men have left.

We used thermal blankets on the Space Shuttle, in fact I have a scrap piece in my garage. I often wondered if the technology could be used to cover a house when there is a firestorm. Interesting that someone finally made a blanket like this. In this instance with the electric vehicle, they could have covered the vehicle then injected CO2 to stop the fire even quicker. But the battery has been breached, so the lithium would be exposed to oxygen when the blanket is removed, so it would re-ignite, like it did.

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There should be one of these blankets in the roofs of every electric vehicle that deploy like air bags in case of fire! (Sarcasm......but, not so much)

The battery bank in that car is minuscule compared to battery storage in modern EV’s

They're saving the environment

The battery runaway sound sounds like music how cool

I’m pretty sure that bad boy put off more emissions in 5 minutes than all the vehicles I’ve owned in my life so far.

Three years later, they still can't take the blanket off - it's still waiting to reignite.

The blanket is impressive that's for sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Free blanket with every Chevy Bolt purchase today only

Having seen this, the authorities will have to force the manufacturers to encapsulate the batteries in armored compartments equipped with halon gas tanks, so that the passengers have time to vacate the vehicle.

2:18 funny how “battery thermal runaway” sounds just like music!

They’ll need to keep a few at the charging station. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

A new product, a car cover for BEVs, especially those ones parked in garages! Also good as an e-bike cover as well.

legend says in 2023 the temperature is still very hot

Great idea, but it seems to only contain the flame, so far the batteries are the issue. They have to come out with a quicker way to put these type of fires to be completely extinguished.

cool, if needed you can probably weight down the blanket with a waterfilled hose around the car

Oh wow this song 🙌

I'm feeling safer than ever in my Nissan Leaf. First we see how long it took for the battery pack to ignite, with a lot of fire directly ender it. The video indicates thermal runaway at over 8 minutes in. Then, just before the blanket was pulled over it, the car was still not fully engulfed. That was more than 10 minutes in. There was no explosion, and plenty of time for occupants to get out.

Fun fact, Lithium batteries will ignite when in context with oxygen That's why even with the fire out it reignited. As long as there is still lithium exposed, the fire will not give up.

I wonder how toxic that ground is now under that car? And how it will enter the water stream now.

amazing!

Well burning a EV in a populated area with buildings and road traffic so close while the people handling the blanket are all wearing breathing apparatus is a great example of not understanding the toxicity of the burning batteries or they just don't care the other people nearby. 2 thumbs up !

Are the batteries of this Nissan Leaf fully charged before conducting this experiment? Or are they in an empty state? I would like that to be specified.

Thanks for the video. As a firefighter they told us not to use water for the pollution and so much run off. This seems great is there a investment opportunity?

The blanket won't put the batteries out. They will burn without oxygen. It will do two things that are useful. One is to keep the rest of the car, the parts that do need oxygen to burn, from burning. The other, as seen here, is to contain the (now reduced) fire. Nice if you're in a garage or near buildings or other vehicles.

Every fire department should have one of those on the truck!

Now let's recall what Boeing had to do with their Li battery packs on the dreamliner 787. I believe, and correct me if i'm wrong, but they had to place them in a stainless steel container which could be jettisoned out of the plane in case of fire.

Now imagine 5 of these in a row at your local underground carpark charging station, keeping in mind those firefighters are wearing protective gear because the toxic gas emissions coming off a battery fire are absolutely deadly.

Genius idea

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So it didn't really put it out cuz it self-ignited as soon as the blanket was removed??

Wondering how the tires were still holding up before they covered

All fier station house are going to need them great idea 💡💡💡

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This is, I guess, supposed to reassure us about EV fires. Consider the following; this was filmed in the middle of a wide open area, with nothing else around. Consider if this was on a ships car decks, surrounded by many other cars. Or in a multi story car park, full to capacity. On a residential street. In a packed car showroom. The fumes would be catastrophic, even if breathing apparatus were somehow available. Then consider what happens to insurance when a lot of these things happen - why, it goes up. And up. And the nature of insurance is that the wise man bears the brunt of the fool.

So how long did it take????????????

2023! Still smoldering.

put the blanket on to smother the oxygen, leave it there until the temperature is low enough that re-ignition can't happen. There's a lot of thermal mass there, it would probably take a couple days for every part of it to drop below the ignition temp. If one tiny area is still hot enough, as soon as you introduce oxygen again it just starts back up

So you just leave the car there forever? How do you stop it from igniting every time the blanket comes off?

i want to see this done on a windy day

The blanket comes with every new e-car.

Seems cool, better than the traditional way. It's a shame thermal runway is a thing amas it can just keep burning and reignite hours later etc. But this seems a good way to keep the firefighters safe

Try the same operation on an extremely windy day. 😂

I put one of those on whenever I park my bolt.

Living things need living things We are the fish that climbed the tree 🌳

I see that Electric Car fires are nothing to fool around with (nasty) when one starts on fire. Nice that the blanket contains the blaze, but does it eventually completely put out the fire???? Hmmmm!!! when you took off the blanket the first time, the fire started up again because the car was still pretty hot. So it looks like the fire departments are going to be needing something like this for any Electric car fires in the future, since more and more of them are on the roads now. Thanks for the video.

will the blanket help to prevent reignition, and eventual total snuffing out of fire? any data?

I understand that they are just testing the properties of the blanket but how does this work if it's a bit breezy?

Thermal runaway fire doesn't need oxygen to keep burning. That fire has all the chemistry it needs in that battery. That is why the fire can continue even when the car is under water.

Is the battery in a hybrid big enough to worry about? And is the battery well separated from the gas tank?

Well with a classic fuel car, the blanket cuts the oxygen-supply (the oxygen being reduced) form the air, so the fuel can't burn (be oxidated) anymore. But as this car has both parts of the Red-Ox-Reaction in its own batteries, the basic reaction continues and that blanket provides mostly a heat protection e.g. for the tunnel roof and reduces damage done by the toxic and corrosive gases, as apparently less smoke is released. So may be especially in Switzerland with a lot of tunnels, this could be a good tool. The underlying road-tar or concrete will most probably suffer equal damage, despite some organic-material parts which may burn less under this blanket, as environmental oxygen is cut off for all organic-material e.g. plastic parts. (Soory, I use "organic" material in the definition for chemistry here, "organic" isn't as such equal to biologically produced food or textile tissue!) So may be an other device to be pushed under the car, to protect the road-tar may be an additional goodie. All in all, I think such e-cars should have something like a protected ceramic resistor which is switched on to dissipate in a safe way the energy stored in the battery as soon as possible in case of a detected accident. Similar to a fuel car, where a safety device already Golf 1/ Jetta 1 in 1974 (!) was installed with the aim to switch off the fuel pump if a hard shock was detected. This battery-energy "emptying" device would also make the storage of accident cars less dangerous, as after some time, the battery energy should go to zero.

Вещь хорошая. Но не везде можно применить, если есть опасность взрыва.

Still early days. Batteries are getting towards solid state which won't have thermal run away such as this. It also took a lot of heat to ignite the battery

This is the future of fighting the MANY EV fires we're going to be seeing in the years to come. And that means EVERY major FD and airport in the world will need these. This blanket and the knock-offs that will come down the pipe will make the patent holders very, very rich.

Much will depend presumably, on how quickly the fire brigade can reach the vehicle.

Why not push a water sprayer underneath before pulling the blanket over, it would cool the battery down while the flames are inhibited.

El fuego de combustible. Interesante sería ver esa sabana contra un fuego de batería eléctrico real

1. On the side of the blanket that sits over the window, have a connection for a 1" hose. 2. Smash the window after the blanket is covering it, and flood the car with a Water/Sodium Bicarbonate solution.

Can someone explain how the blanket resisted the fire? What is it made of

Every EV should have one of those that you put over it every time it’s parked.

You could spray water over the blanket as it sits on the burning car and it should reduce the temperature right down and run hoses under the blanket too

Windspeed day of the test?

It didn't work to put the fire out, but it did contain it. Rather than use it for fighting EV fires, it should be issued to EV owners as an accessory. It should be used to cover EV's when charging in your attached garage or when parked in close proximity to other cars, like in car parks or when being transported on container ships, to contain fires before they have a chance to spread.

And this is safer? Also, how toxic is lithium mining versus oil, gas and coal mining? Thoughts? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i6icm7qD09LNm5c.html

So what happened in the end? Did the blanket ever work???

Did the car reignite again, and again? End of video leaves a lot of questions.

You use sand and blow it into the vehicle. Aircraft use that technique.

Totally safe. No carbon footprint here !

Yep, put it on and leave it on until the battery bank has finished its melt down/expended all its energy. It will still melt down but the blanket Will contain the mess and keep the plastics from combusting or the fire from spreading to other combustibles… Way more practical than dumping 50,000 gallons of water on an electric car…

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Why not just remove all the oxygen from the atmosphere so we don't have this problem?

If a lithium battery is pierced or damaged in a crash, it can cause an almost instant inferno.

The blanket is good for control in order to clear the area but you’ll still have to let it burn its way out. Thermal runaway is still present and your not going to put a burning car on a flatbed to move it.

Would it not be possible to pack all car batteries in this blanket inside the car when the car is built? Or do need battery's oxygen?

There is a lot of this ev fires considering how few there is out there, something has to be done this is very destructive to the environment.

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The problem is the batteries produce their own oxidizer, it can’t be snuffed out. It has to burn through its fuel before it can be fully extinguished. Even fully submerged in water doesn’t stop the blaze

I half expected a flashover to occur when the blanket was removed

Those things are downright dangerous

The only way to extinguish lithium battery is to take away air but the moment you let air in again, it will catch fire.

Good luck trying to use that during heavy wind

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An explosion will blow the blanket away. Batteries usually explode.

I hope they have a larger blanket for the CyberTrash

Under the blanket the car is cooked at lower temperature and saves more nutrients

So it was a partial success