Electric vehicle player Komaki, which launched the Ranger and Venice electric two-wheelers in January and the DT 3000 last month, plans to launch fireproof batteries in India that it has been working on for the last year, a top executive at the company told FE.“We are in the process of acquiring the patent (for fireproof batteries),” Subhash Sharma, operations head at Komaki, said.
Over the last few days, there have been at least four reported incidents of two-wheeler EVs catching fire. Fireproof batteries, at least theoretically, can ensure no such incidents happen with Komaki EVs.
According to Sharma, EVs can catch fire due to three reasons: Poor quality lithium cells, cell leakage inside the battery, and mismatch between parameters of battery controller and motor (powertrain). He, however, added that internal combustion engines (ICE) are as susceptible to fire as EVs are….