Sentences with phrase «battery caught fire»

No one seemed seriously hurt after the battery caught fire.

A Chinese mobile owner claimed that the Google Nexus 7 with 4325 mAh battery caught fire with suffocating smoke in his room.

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The biggest issue facing Samsung with the Galaxy S8 is the fear that still resides from the Galaxy Note 7's batteries catching fire spontaneously.

In September, Samsung recalled the phone after reports of its battery catching fire.

The Note 7 was originally released in August to highly positive reviews, but before the month was out, the first reports of the phone's battery catching fire began to emerge.

Not exact matches

But because it was the first smartphone Samsung launched after discontinuing its Galaxy Note 7 — some of which were found to have a battery defect that could cause it to explode or catch on fire — the company delayed the launch to implement a new safety - testing protocol to ensure the phones» batteries were safe, it said.

In January 2013, batteries in one of Boeing's next generation Dreamliner aircraft caught fire while the craft was sitting empty at Boston's Logan Airport.

Unfortunately, the Green Goat's batteries are known to have caught fire, forcing RailPower to recall, retrofit and update 59 units of the locomotive in May 2007, a move that cost the company about $ 15.5 million for warranty provisions.

In a battery, the increased stability would translate into a device with long cycle life and that is less likely to catch fire.

This causes the battery to overheat in the presence of its reactive lithium electrolyte and possibly catch fire (which is exacerbated by oxygen entering from outside).

The study, published in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition, suggests that neutron depth profiling (NDP) could one day help explain why rechargeable batteries lose capacity over time, or sometimes even catch fire.

And though scientists continue to make the batteries better, there's always a risk they'll catch fire.

Yet far more attention is being paid to one all - electric Tesla Model S that caught fire on October 1 after metallic debris pierced a module in its battery pack.

Furthermore, Li - ion batteries are a risky game, as highlighted by recent widely publicized reports detailed in Scientific American, Reuters and Forbes, for example, in which Li - ion - powered devices have either caught fire or exploded as a result of the fundamental flammability and reactivity of lithium.

It's nearly impossible for the water - based electrolyte to catch fire and it doesn't require expensive materials that are needed to withstand the corrosive nature of other flow batteries.

Issues with two different lithium - ion batteries led to short circuits in Samsung Galaxy Note 7s which caused them to catch fire, says the company

But the high - energy lithium - ion batteries» packaging can make them prone to overheating and catching fire.

Regarding lithium - ion batteries in general, the CPSD says 300 incidents of overheating and catching fire have occurred between 2003 and 2005 in the US, across a variety of devices.

But lithium is expensive and can develop breaches in its internal structure, a condition known as dendrite growths, which can cause the batteries to catch fire.

Lithium - ion batteries are used in portable devices because they are lightweight and efficient, but when they short circuit, their liquid components can vaporise and catch fire.

In Japan, sodium - sulfur batteries at Mitsubishi Materials Corp.'s Tsukuba plant in Ibaraki prefecture caught on fire on Sept. 21.

First conceived in 1912, lithium - metal batteries have the potential for huge amounts of energy storage at a low cost, but they suffer from a fatal flaw: dendrites — sharp needles made of clumps of lithium atoms that can cause batteries to heat up and occasionally short - circuit and catch fire.

THE KAVLI FOUNDATION: At the end of 2011 there were several news stories about how a battery in the Chevy Volt, GM's first mainstream electric vehicle since the EV1, caught fire several weeks after the car was subject to crash testing.

As they spread, the dendrites hinder the performance of the battery and eventually cause it to short - circuit or catch fire.

Also the fact the owner had time to try starting the car without the battery exploding or catching fire is amazing.

In addition, a high - speed Tesla Model S crash in Mexico resulted in the car catching fire after the battery pack was compromised.

Despite the dramatic video footage, only one of the battery pack's 16 sections caught fire, and Carlson was still able to bring the Tesla Model S safely to a halt.

Critics raised concerns over the durability of Tesla Model S battery packs last year after a car in Washington caught fire.

The all - electric battery car caught fire and three people were killed, Chinese media reported, citing police.

Last month, Mitsubishi had to halt production of its i - Miev and Outlander PHEV after a battery pack caught fire and another overheated causing the Outlander plug - in inoperable.

Yesterday, Mitsubishi announced it would be extending the production and shipment stoppage of the Outlander PHEV until it can find the cause of an overheating lithium - ion battery that caused one of the vehicles to catch on fire.

The Japanese automaker has said they still haven't been able to figure out what caused one of the lithium - ion batteries in an Outlander PHEV to overheat and a pack in a Mitsubishi i - Miev to catch on fire last month.

It's cheaper, won't catch fire and burn to the ground, and easier to push home when the battery runs dead.

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Here's an interesting BBC story about the safety hazards associated with the Chevy Volt — specifically, the risk that its battery pack could catch fire after even a minor impact.

In fact, a few years ago, a battery the size of a trailer installed next to a wind turbine on Hawaà ¯ to store its intermittent energy caught fire by itself and burned to the ground.

With batteries, they can heat up and even catch fire.

A similar issue has been experienced in hoverboards which have caught fire due to faulty batteries.

The terminals touched and the batteries heated to the point that their surroundings caught fire and soon the entire house was engulfed in flames.

Cheap hoverboards don't have these switches — that, combined with cheap plugs, cabling, and batteries, means that your child's hoverboard could catch on fire if it's plugged in for too long.

But the Note 8 is also the followup to last year's disastrous Note 7, which was recalled due to a faulty battery with a tendency to catch fire.

Lithium batteries, which power many personal electronic devices, can explode or catch fire in certain conditions.

Last year, the massive recall of the Galaxy Note 7, which was known for battery faults that caused it to catch on fire, hit Samsung with a major blow, mostly due to how they continued to ship out faulty devices even after reports of fires.

Late last month, a Model X careened into a highway divider whereupon the battery pack on Tesla's electric SUV caught on fire.

Available in a $ 120 hard - wired model and a $ 110 battery - powered version, the First Alert alarm uses photoelectric sensors to catch both fast and slow moving fires.

The S8 is the South Korean firm's upcoming flagship phone that will succeed the disastrous Galaxy Note 7, which was recalled shortly after it went on sale last September over battery issues that caused it to catch on fire.

On occasion, this has resulted in batteries expanding, smoking, catching fire, and causing an entire recall due to faulty units.

But then reports of faulty batteries began to emerge, with some of the phone units generating excessive heat and catching fire.

While lithium - ion batteries are, on the whole, incredibly safe they do very very occasionally catch fire or explode.