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Monday, December 01, 2025
Power Tool Batteries & Salt Water Don't Mix, They Explode - Florida Warns Residents As Hurricane Season Continues
www.slashgear.com: We've become increasingly reliant on lithium-ion batteries. In their various shapes and sizes, they can power everything from smartphones to EVs and have proven invaluable for their capacity to charge quickly and efficiently. Sometimes, we barely spare them a thought, beyond plugging in our devices when the display asks us to.
2 comments:
Alex Reinard
said...
These days, I think it's really easy to forget how dependent we are on lithium ion batteries, and how dangerous they are too. We're really all carrying around a lithium ion battery with us all day every day, in the form of our smartphones. I realized this last April, when my phone battery started expanding and smelling like chemicals. I had to wait for a few weeks before I could get a new one, and I was nervous just carrying it with me. It was even hard to sleep at night, though I kept my phone away from my bed, because I was worried it was going to explode or something. They’re harder to dispose of than alkaline batteries, too. There are a lot of videos online of garbage trucks exploding because somebody will put a laptop in a trash can instead of properly disposing of it. A few weeks ago, there was a video going around the Internet of an EV forcibly ejecting its battery pack away from the car. It was advertised as a mechanism to keep the driver safe, but all the comments we're talking about other drivers or pedestrians on the sidewalk that this exploding battery could hurt.
We often forget how unstable batteries actually are. I have witnessed first hand a tool battery overheating and we ended up tossing it in a bucket of water and hoping for the best. It was not something that I wish to experience again. I was unaware that salt water had a higher likelihood of causing the batteries to malfunction. This article was eye opening to another hazard I was unaware of. I have often wondered how much work manufactures put into testing how to prevent water and things from causing their batteries to go unstable. I know that this is an issue with teslas and them frequently exploding after an accident. Our tool batteries are easier to secure and ensure that they stay dry but a car is difficult especially when in an emergency situation. This leads me to the question: are we really ready for all electric vehicles? Have we developed the technology enough?
2 comments:
These days, I think it's really easy to forget how dependent we are on lithium ion batteries, and how dangerous they are too. We're really all carrying around a lithium ion battery with us all day every day, in the form of our smartphones. I realized this last April, when my phone battery started expanding and smelling like chemicals. I had to wait for a few weeks before I could get a new one, and I was nervous just carrying it with me. It was even hard to sleep at night, though I kept my phone away from my bed, because I was worried it was going to explode or something. They’re harder to dispose of than alkaline batteries, too. There are a lot of videos online of garbage trucks exploding because somebody will put a laptop in a trash can instead of properly disposing of it. A few weeks ago, there was a video going around the Internet of an EV forcibly ejecting its battery pack away from the car. It was advertised as a mechanism to keep the driver safe, but all the comments we're talking about other drivers or pedestrians on the sidewalk that this exploding battery could hurt.
We often forget how unstable batteries actually are. I have witnessed first hand a tool battery overheating and we ended up tossing it in a bucket of water and hoping for the best. It was not something that I wish to experience again. I was unaware that salt water had a higher likelihood of causing the batteries to malfunction. This article was eye opening to another hazard I was unaware of. I have often wondered how much work manufactures put into testing how to prevent water and things from causing their batteries to go unstable. I know that this is an issue with teslas and them frequently exploding after an accident. Our tool batteries are easier to secure and ensure that they stay dry but a car is difficult especially when in an emergency situation. This leads me to the question: are we really ready for all electric vehicles? Have we developed the technology enough?
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