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Originally Posted by M5Rick
The size of li-po battery matters, you can't compare a Mac battery in a lap top to say an EV type size battery that can erupt at any time in any place,while charging, not charging, in a collision or just plain parked up in the sun or rain lashed and seemingly part of the landscape before the unthinkable happens.
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Of course the size matters in how long the fire might last, but this is a recycling facility that likely has hundreds of thousands of small batteries. One catches fire, they all go up in flames.
If you think your phone or your laptop battery is safe, it's about as safe as every EV out there. Many houses have burnt to the ground from phones, electric tool batteries, bike/scooter batteries, etc. It's an inherent issue with current battery tech, not just EVs. The cheaper the more risky, and those are more likely to be in small devices, not EV's.