Thomas Wagner, UL As Business Manager Automotive at UL (Underwriters Laboratories), Thomas Wagner outlined new standards available or under development to ensure the fire safety of electric cars. Testing is component based, and most parts in e-vehicles are the same as...
Paul Otxoterena, RiSE Fire contributes to road accident deaths: around 5% of road fatalities in Sweden involve vehicle fires, with cause of death attributable only to fire in one third of cases. In the USA, over 30 road vehicle fires per hour are reported. Around 12%...
David Qi, RadiciGroup High Performance Polymers Laurent Tribut, Schneider Electric Significant new fire safety challenges posed by electric vehicles: High voltages, risk of electrostatic accumulation Increasing use of plastics in vehicles, to reduce weight and because...
Dieter Brants, Hulpverleningszone Oost The fire load of electric vehicles with batteries and the heat release rate in fire are similar to that of conventional vehicles with fuel. However, the Flanders fire safety organisation (Hulpverleningszone Oost) is concerned...
Integrating TFP’s nonwoven PIN FR fibre mat into epoxy, carbon-fibre epoxy and polyester enables a pass in key elements of EN45545-2. TFP (Technical Fibre Products) is a UK-based manufacturer of nonwovens, part of the James Cropper Group. The PIN FR mat is based on...
