Battery lab testing (IMAGE) DOE/Sandia National Laboratories Caption Sandia National Laboratories’ Genaro Quintana prepares a battery for testing in a vault at the Battery Abuse Testing Lab. Sandia’s research on detecting battery failures sooner in electric vehicles was published in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society. Credit Photo by Craig Fritz/Sandia National Laboratories Usage Restrictions For use with story about quicker battery failure detection. License Original content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.