How Safe Really is Battery Powered Flight

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"Most lithium-ion battery fires and explosions come down to a problem of short circuiting. This happens when the plastic separator fails and lets the anode and cathode touch. ... In some models, when the battery expanded a little as it charged, the electrodes bent and caused a short circuit."

 

So before I get to excited about flying electric planes I have read and viewed a number of video of electric car batteries catching fire or exploding.

 

Now the question is how safe are these things and what happens if you are in the air and it all goes to hell.

 

I am only talking about out RAA toys here or that you can get. What safety if any do we have for these in aircraft?

 

I know we will be soon killed for flying petrol powered planes soon and I bet taxed to fly them.

 

 

[bexrbetter]

 

 

 

 

 

So before I get to excited about flying electric planes I have read and viewed a number of video of electric car batteries catching fire or exploding.

 

 

 

Yeah well they tried putting electric cars parked doing nothing videos up, but no one watched them.

 

Just as many petrol cars catch fire, especially recently as packaging becomes tighter and more systems involved, they merely aren't the center of attention at the moment.

 

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[facthunter]

  There's plenty of examples of aircraft batteries playing up. The early Dreamliner was delayed for a while to correct battery issues  and some Airbus have access to the batteries in flight and  heat sensors on them. The risk is probably manageable and probably of a lesser order than Fossil fuel  running all over the place, particularly near red hot exhaust pipes etc which is often the case.  There's less oil piping also, which is a good fire starter and you feed oil to turbochargers which are bl@@dy hot . Nev