The concept of the “exhaust system” of the electric car is not a new idea. To date, giving an exhaust electric car means equipping it with a sound amplifier to pump the tail of the mill sounds that remind us with a gas counterpart (looks at you, Dodge Chager DayTona). But what if we told us that one car company has found a completely different use of one?
It turns out that Stelantis had found less controversial use of EV exhaust. It is not a matter of style or sound, either – it focuses fully on safety. Now, I know what you think: How can the exhaust use for safety? A new patent published by the Patent and brands of the United States, which was first reported by green car reports, shows how the auto company believes that it can help reduce the risk of EV battery fires.
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It may seem confusing that the exhaust can help prevent battery fire, but if we have exactly what happens when the EV battery temperature rises, everything will start in place.
When the battery suffers from a type of catastrophic failure – the constituent circles, mechanical damage, external fire, excessive charging, or any other number of cases – the phenomena engineers who call the thermal escape can be tested. As the name suggests, the cell is not only faded, but it can throw a chemical anger. As a result, a cocktail of flammable gases can be fired from hydrogen, methane, astelin, boban and more. Certainly, things that do not want to mix with high temperatures in these conditions.
Enter Stellantis Genius solution: a system that breathes these gases outside the battery package to avoid automatic combustion within the package that turns high dollar EV into credit fire. Or, as they call it eloquence, the electric car exhaust system.
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Now the system does not breathe from these harmful gases from the package when it fails. The patent describes the auto industry using multiple “treatment areas” to clean these gases chemically before launching them in the air. It is a type of catalyst, except for the failed battery cells outside the gases instead of the exhaust fumes.
Modern EVS may seem designed to reduce the probability of fires already – and certainly, they are. Batter systems are designed in EVS, such as tightly monitoring power force with many sensors and liquid liquid cooling settings to help regulate temperatures. However, Stelantis does not make mistakes in matters that are not going well. EVS is not infallible, after all, just ask South Korea about the last Freaking EV. Safety is achieved through repetition, and this is what is patent here to present it.
Stelantis is not the only company that is thinking outside the box on how to prevent EV battery fires. Bush suggested, for example, using small bombings governed to physically separate the EV battery in the event of a collision – modern packages do so exactly.
At the end of the day, the EV concept appears strange on paper. But if something applied to be patented stellantis, this may be a change in games in the EV fire safety. Certainly, EV fires are not a common event, but it is better to be ready.
