NURTINGEN, Germany—A new three-year R&D project is attempting to improve the safety of plastic battery housings used in electric vehicles. The GermanFederal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Acttion has invested $2.8 million in SiKuBa (safe and sustainable plastic-based battery housings), which will use simulation tools to study the thermal runaway of individual battery cells.
Farasis Energy is part of the research consortium along with Kautex Textron GmbH and the Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics.