Lakeville City Council — Transcript

Tuesday, May 20, 2025Analysis complete

3 Topics in This Document

Electric Vehicle and Lithium-Ion Battery Safety

Residential EV Charger Installation Best Practices

Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Runaway Mechanism

Full Extraction

Get a licensed electrician pull a permit and make sure that they are using the approved charging devices for your vehicle by cutting those corners you can greatly increase the risk of fire in your house

Greg Downer/Vehicle Response Training [0:25-0:41]Safety Training: Electric Vehicle Charging and Lithium-Ion Battery Fire Prevention

an inappropriate charger has the ability to overcharge that battery pack and when we overcharge a battery pack we're introducing too much energy into it uh energy creates heat

Greg Downer/Vehicle Response Training [0:51-0:58]Safety Training: Electric Vehicle Charging and Lithium-Ion Battery Fire Prevention

once these batteries uh become compromised uh they actually start an exothermic reaction uh heating up heating up continues to heat up and then uh all of a sudden they start off gasing which those gases are flammable uh once that happens now we have a propagating uh scenario where it it starts heating up all of the cells around it and now we have a much larger fire event on our hands

Greg Downer/Vehicle Response Training [1:01-1:26]Safety Training: Electric Vehicle Charging and Lithium-Ion Battery Fire Prevention