Battery test (IMAGE)

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Battery test

Caption

A battery is ready for testing in a vault, which includes several layers of shielding and concrete walls, at Sandia National Laboratories’ Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory. Sandia scientists are working to identify methods to detect failures in electric vehicle batteries before the batteries catch fire.

Credit

Photo by Craig Fritz/Sandia National Laboratories

Usage Restrictions

For use with battery failure detection story

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.