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Originally Posted by Patrick
With the battery safety thing, making sure they won't over heat under heavy load is important of course, but the thing that's always worried me is what happens in a car crash? Do they catch fire once punctured like the lipo's we use can?
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Since the cell they use is plain old lithium ion, yes they'll burst into flames like many laptop batteries has. Maybe Tesla made a solid casing that won't allow that to happen though. The cells I can get are completely safe and are trusted by the US military forces.