Lithium battery upgrade

[petearmo]

Hello all.
If you look at social media posts in respect to electric cars, there are many posts highlighting cars going up in flames, there have been posts showing fire crews struggling to put out cars that have caught fire and gone into thermal runaway. My question is, does the group think there is a real risk in changing out their batteries and going down the lithium route.

 

[Tombola]

No, lifpeo4 batteries are quite safe.
In fact the fire risk is lower than old lead acids.

And cheaper nowadays too than the equivalent power of lead. 100ah lithium here for 169.00

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ECO-WORTHY-LiFePO4-Lithium-4000-15000-Campervan/dp/B0DPMR14BZ?tag=mhf04-21

 

[mikash]

Hello all.
If you look at social media posts in respect to electric cars, there are many posts highlighting cars going up in flames, there have been posts showing fire crews struggling to put out cars that have caught fire and gone into thermal runaway. My question is, does the group think there is a real risk in changing out their batteries and going down the lithium route.

EV batteries have different chemistry. Iron phosphate batteries like the typical leisure batteries are quite stable and not prone to thermal runaway.