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FireBox Safe and secure extinguish, salvage, transport and storage of crashed electric vehicles FireBox andreas.krebs@blubox.ch The FireBox consists of : Salvage container with Extinguisher N-EXT extinguish system FireBox

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The FireBox consists of:

Salvage container with extinguish system

Extinguisher N-EXT

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Salvage with the FireBox Extinguish with N-EXT at the accident site Store in the FireBox

FireBox – a 20ft Container with 2 Extinghuish Systems

Transport in the FireBox

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Field report : Accident E-vehicle, NL, 2016

Fire outbreak inside the car, 3 hours after the crash. The reason was unknown.

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Cells from the car were spread in the surrounding and suddenly started to burn.

Field report : Accident E-vehicle, NL, 2016

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Field report : Accident E-vehicle, CH, 2017

Crashed vehicle was stored and transported secure in the FireBox

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Field report : Accident E-vehicle, AT, 2017

Message on Facebook: Fire of an electric vehicle on the S16, Pians, 17.10.2017 A fire of an electric vehicle after an accident shortly before the entrance of the Pianner tunnel. The driver

f the electric vehicle crashed against concrete

bulkheads and was only slightly injured. The firefighting - which could only be done under heavy respiratory protection - was difficult as the vehicle repeatedly caught fire. It was only after cutting the power supply from the high-performance battery that made the fire fighters win and extinguish the fire. Since lithium batteries are used, the manufacturer recommends that crashed vehicles are left "quarantined" for 48 hours in order a restart of a fire can be extinguished. The Arlbergschnellstraße had to be closed for around 2 hours. The fire department Landeck was with 5 vehicles and 35 fire fighters on site.

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Field report : Accident E-vehicle, AT, 2017

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Damaged Batteries are still active!

Text Old or damaged Batteries are still active! A damage

r defect

can start up a fire, at anytime!

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Extinguish a Lithium Batteries Fire Outdoors

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Extinguish Tests with Lithium Batteries in the FireBox

Batteries stored in barrels – Burned batteries – The FireBox after the fire

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Extinguish a Lithium Batteries Fire with the FireBox

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Why do Lithium Batteries start to burn?

Set on fire by:

Mechanical damage
Short circuit
Overheating
Electro-chemical reaction

What is burned off:

Electrolyte
Aluminum foil
Metal oxides
Plastics

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Components of a EV Battery

Lithium Ion Battery

1. Battery cage
2. Battery module
3. Battery control unit
4. High voltage plug
5. Cooling water connection
6. Cell control unit

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The Electric Vehicule

No combustion engine
Battery weight 200 - 350 kg. In

the Tesla Model S up to 750 kg.

The battery is usually on the

bottom of the floor panel

Voltage up to 1000 Volts

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The FireBox

The FireBox is equipped with :

a fire alarm system, with alarm signal
an automatic aerosol extinguishing system
a sprinkler system with Storz connection
a connection to the main fire alarm panel

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Secure Storage of Lithium Batteries

Originally the FireBox was developed for the storage of lithium batteries.

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E-Vehicles: Outlook 2030

End of 2016, 10'724 electric vehicles were on the road in Switzerland. (0.24% of

PVs)

3'525 more than last year. (+ 47%)
Due to the legislation and the current reports on diesel, a further increase has to

be expected.

The European Union estimates that in 2030 at least 15% of electric vehicles will

be on the road.

This would be about 1,000,000 electric vehicles in Switzerland.

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Safe and rapid Salvage of Electric Vehicles with the FireBox

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Safe and rapid Salvage of Electric Vehicles

MODITECH information system for fire service, rescue and breakdown service

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Safe and rapid Salvage of Electric Vehicles

Service and emergency circuit breaker and the first responder loop

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Safe and rapid Salvage of Electric Vehicles with the FireBox

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Safe and rapid Salvage of Electric Vehicles with the FireBox

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Secure Transport of Electric Vehicles

The FireBox with a surveillance and armed fire extinguishing system

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Secure Storage of Electric Vehicles

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Overview FireBox

Safe and secure extinguish, salvage, transport and storing

f crashed electric vehicles

extinguish salvage transport store