EV Charging Station Automatic Fire Extinguishing System
The battery of electric vehicle is a combination of about 300pieces battery cells, and when one of the pieces catches fire, a ‘thermal runaway phenomenon’ occurs in which the fire spreads to surrounding pieces in succession. the fire will not be extinguished until the battery is completely combusted. Currently, if an electric vehicle fire accident occurs, the vehicle body must be submerged in a water tank filled with water and wait for the fire to be extinguished. Just pouring water would take a lot of time and very large amount of water. Most of the electric vehicle fire cases occur during the charging process, and if an accident occurs in a parking lot inside a building, especially in the basement, it is difficult and time-consuming to place the vehicle in a flood tank, which is highly likely to lead to a 2nd fire and large-scale fire accident. With significantly increasing EV vehicle, the charging stations in parking lots is als...