An exploding lithium-ion battery in an illegal e-bike repair shop in the basement of a home in Queens sparked a huge fire that tore through the single-family house, FDNY officials said Tuesday.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a product safety warning for a power supply that could explode and catch fire.

At a recent meeting a member of the Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Authority's local performance and scrutiny committee ...

Prof Dryfe says that fires are indeed a risk - not just at the Bess installations themselves, but also at the recycling ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- An e-battery can explode in an apartment or building next to yours and it's out of your control. It's happening in record numbers in New York, which has become ground zero for ...

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One Hawaiʻi resident was exasperated at a notice from their homeowners association, which used a single incident as a ...

Researchers at China’s Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering have found a way to restore the energy density of old Lithium-Ion batteries by heating them to over 150°C.… Rechargeable ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- 7 on Your Side's Michael Finney has talked with several Bay Area scientists that have been working on preventing battery fires. But for now, lithium-ion batteries are still ...

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — Lithium ion batteries power our lives. But every once in a while, they blow up, spectacularly, spontaneously, and with terrible consequences. In the past year we’ve seen an ...

That seems bound to fail, unless thermally coupled to the entire (non-thermally-conductive) tank and insulated from the outside. Seems like you would at least need a pressure release valve, if not ...

My parents live two or three blocks from where this happened, and heard the explosion. They didn't know what it was at the time, until it was covered in the local newspaper the next day. The article ...