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There have been at least four incidents of two-wheeler vehicles, powered by lithium-ion batteries bursting into flames. What are Li-ion batteries, and how do they work? What caused these vehicles to catch fire?

 
 

Throughout the most recent five days, there have been somewhere around four revealed occurrences of bike electric vehicles - made by any semblance of Ola, Okinawa and Pure EV - suddenly blasting into blazes, bringing to the front wellbeing issues connected with such vehicles, particularly the batteries that power them.
 
EVs are fueled by lithium-particle batteries, of the sort utilized in cellphones and smartwatches, which are by and large viewed as effective and light contrasted with their partners. Be that as it may, they may likewise represent a fire risk, as proven by the new episodes.
 
What are lithium particle batteries, and how would they work?
 
From electric vehicles to cell phones to workstations, lithium-particle (Li-particle) batteries are the most well known battery type today, controlling large number of buyer gadgets all over the planet. A Li-particle battery comprises of an anode, cathode, separator, electrolyte, and two current gatherers. The anode and cathode is in the same place as the lithium put away, while the electrolyte conveys emphatically charged lithium particles from the anode to the cathode as well as the other way around through the separator. The development of the lithium particles makes free electrons in the anode, which makes a charge at the positive current gatherer.
 
The key things that improve a Li-particle battery than different sorts, and more appropriate for things like electric vehicles and cell phones are its light weight, high energy thickness, and capacity to re-energize. Aside from this, Li-particle batteries additionally normally have a more extended life expectancy contrasted with a lead corrosive battery.
 
A Li-particle battery can commonly store 150 watts-hour per kg when contrasted with a lead-corrosive battery which stores something like 25 watts-hour per kg. In straightforward terms, it implies that Li-particle batteries offer more effectiveness contrasted with other battery types while keeping the structure component of an item generally minimal, and that implies an electric vehicle fitted with Li-particle batteries will have a more prominent driving reach, and cell phones will endure longer as the day progressed.

 
 
 
 
 

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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

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