According to Korea JoongAng Daily, another electric car fire has occurred in Geumsan County, South Chungcheong. The police identified it as a Kia EV6.
Residents in the area called the police and fire department to report the blaze around 5 am on August 6.
Firefighters are working to extinguish the flames from a Kia EV6 in a parking lot in Geumsan around 5 am on August 6 (Photo: Yonhap).
35 firefighters and 12 firefighting equipment, including some fire trucks, arrived at the scene to control the fire. It took 1 hour and 37 minutes to extinguish the fire, with no casualties.
The firefighters took measures to prevent the fire from spreading to nearby parked cars and moved the electric vehicle out of the parking lot during the firefighting process to minimize damage.
"I parked and charged the car around 7 pm the night before," the owner of the vehicle, a man in his 50s, said.
The police and fire department will conduct an investigation to determine the exact cause of the fire. Suspicion is focused on the battery pack.
On August 1, a Mercedes electric car caught fire while parked in the basement of an apartment building in Incheon, South Korea, around 6:15 am.
A total of 23 people, including 22 residents and one firefighter, were hospitalized for smoke inhalation. Nearly 40 cars were destroyed by fire and around 100 other vehicles were damaged by heat and smoke.
177 firefighters and 80 firefighting equipment were deployed to the scene of the fire. After 8 hours and 20 minutes, the fire was completely brought under control.
Although the causes of both fires have not been determined, they have once again raised concerns about the safety of lithium-ion batteries used in many consumer products, such as electric cars, electric motorcycles, electric bicycles, energy storage systems, toys...
Lithium-ion batteries are known to be sensitive to high temperatures and prone to catching fire. Due to their high energy density, fires from lithium-ion batteries can spread rapidly and are difficult to extinguish.
In conventional fire incidents, reducing oxygen levels (with N2/CO2/foam) or cooling the fire (with FM-200/Novec 1230) is effective, but this method is not applicable to lithium-ion battery fires.
Lithium-ion battery fires (the most common type in electric vehicles) result from chemical reactions and ion movement within the battery pack, so they can burn without oxygen and cannot be extinguished, only isolated to prevent the fire from spreading, waiting for the chemical reaction to end.
There have been cases where electric vehicles, after the fire is extinguished, are taken to a waste disposal site and reignite three weeks later. This is due to the heat dissipation of lithium-ion batteries, which can ignite without direct contact with a spark.
Recently, Kia advised users of their electric vehicles not to charge them indoors due to the risk of fire, but this was for a different model, the Niro EV. The reason is that the high-voltage battery safety plug can melt and cause a fire or power loss while the car is in operation.
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