Powering the Future of Electric Vehicles with Safer, Lighter Batteries

If I buy an electric vehicle (EV), will its battery catch fire? Statistically such considerations are almost irrelevant. EV battery fires are no more apt to occur than a gasoline blaze in a new combustion-engine vehicle. Most EVs currently in use are reliable and safe. But a spate of highly publicized Tesla fires (some the result of impact or battery puncture) and GM’s $1.8 billion recall of every single one of the 142,000 Bolt EVs and EUVs ever sold, due to a manufacturing defect found in their lithium-ion batteries supplied by LG Energy Solution, is enough for some prospective buyers to think twice about making the jump to EVs.