Data suggests that hybrid cars are more than twice as likely catch fire as gasoline engine cars, whereas fully electric vehicles show a much lower risk of fire. The information published by is based on US data for 2020 and 2021 from the National Transportation Safety...
Review of physical and solvent recycling of automotive plastics underlines complexity of sorting and technical challenges. An average car today in 2019 contained already c. 160 kg of plastics (nearly 9% of its weight), of which around 50% in the car interior, nearly...
Intumescent PIN flame retardant reduces fire risk and smoke in polyurethane seats achieving railway safety standards. The Adeka PIN FR at 0 – 60% loading in resin inserts in foam seat material was compared to magnesium and bromine based flame retardants and to neat...
Presentations underlined the value of PIN flame retardants in enabling lightweight, fire-safe component performance, in particular protection in case of battery thermal runaway. The AMI conference “Plastics in Electric Vehicles”, Cologne 4-5 June 2024, sponsored by...
Ken Vessey, UL Solutions, summarised challenges and perspectives for EV polymer materials and battery fire testing. Weight reduction is important to the critical objective of EV innovation today, which is to extend vehicle range. Polymer-based composites enable...
