• hddsx@lemmy.ca
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    I thought lithium battery fires were caused by thermal runaway. Does piercing a lithium ion battery cause thermal runaway?

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      Yeah, shorting the cells does that

      • hddsx@lemmy.ca
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        Okay that makes sense. I wondered why the person I replied to specified metal.

        I guess I had a bad recollection of Tesla adding plating to the bottom of their vehicle because (to my bad recollection), general non-Metallic road debris was piercing the battery compartment