http://www.semissourian.com/story/2248342.html Battery explosion causes fire at Cape business November 7, 2015
[images / Fred Lynch http://www.semissourian.com/photos/24/77/09/2477094-L.jpg Cape Girardeau firefighters worked a fire Saturday night at EVTV Motor Verks, 601 Morgan Oak St. in Cape Girardeau. http://www.semissourian.com/photos/24/77/09/2477095-L.jpg Cape Girardeau firefighters change air packs while working a fire Saturday night at EVTV Motor Verks, 601 Morgan Oak St. in Cape Girardeau. ] An electric-car battery explosion caused a fire Saturday evening in Cape Girardeau. The fire started about 7 p.m. in the garage of EVTV Motor Verks in the 601 Morgan Oak St., which installs lithium batteries and electric motors into motor vehicles. Jack Rickard, owner EVTV Motor Verks, said the fire department quickly put out the fire. "There was a battery pack being charged. It got overcharged ... then it blew up," he said. "It shot flames up, and we called the fire department right away and they got it shut down." Cape Girardeau firefighters had the fire under control in a few minutes. The Cape Girardeau Fire Department had not determined how much damage the fire caused. Nobody was injured in the blaze. [© semissourian.com] ... http://jackrickard.blogspot.com/2011/01/first-show-2011.html ... a 54 year old guy working half days falling down drunk and wearing yellow shoes could cobble together an electric car ... [video flash] http://evtv.me/2010/12/it-just-keeps-getting-worse/#comment-1349 ... a nonstandard shorted charging cable will not start such a fire. These cells were grossly overcharged. The one car has TWO Brusa chargers and they just don’t overcharge anything. However, they are very BMS friendly. You can connect them to a BMS via CAN bus and they will do anything they are told, including burning your car to the ground apparently ... I couldn’t get it to set a can of gasoline on fire before blowing the breaker. If it had a highly resistive connection, it MIGHT melt. But it wouldn’t start a fire of such magnitude. One of the things that DOES drive me crazy, is the inability to admit a mistake ... http://www.myelifenow.com/2012/08/evtv-friday-show-august-17-2012.html And another destroyed A123 pouch cells pack, overcharged by Jack, left on the side, and it caught fire few days later during the night, unattended of course ... it could have burned down the Escalade or the whole shop ! and Brian is hilarious :-)) For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Rickard-s-EVTV-let-the-smoke-out-overcharged-pack-fire-blew-up-tp4678548.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
