Quote Originally Posted by doubled1978 View Post
I agree with Mirek in his previous post, the small amount of experience I have had with Lithium batteries, is just what he said, unpredictable and uncontrollable once they go.
Obviously F1 & WEC have been using them for years, and I must admit that I am surprised that I don’t think I have seen a full battery meltdown/failure, although I may be mistaken there despite some massive accidents. But as he says, the remoteness and possibility for fire spread in WRC makes the consequences of that happening, potentially far greater.
paddon stated that they come up with a device that flood and destroy batteries in case of a fire menace: "The batteries you are now seeing in Motorsport cars like ours have a flooding system, so worse case scenario we pump water into the battery which destroys the battery, but saves the car."