# Fun with old electric car batteries **URL:** \ **Category:** Safety\ **Created:** [December 23, 2021, 5:19am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fun-with-old-electric-car-batteries/181412 "2021-12-23T05:19:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 5:19am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fun-with-old-electric-car-batteries/181412/1 "2021-12-23T05:19:57Z")
‘A rival had released a video suggesting that a technology used by the company, CATL, and other manufacturers could cause car fires. Imitating a Chinese government safety test, the rival had driven a nail through a battery cell, one of many in a typical electric car battery. The cell exploded in a fireball.’ > **[Why a Chinese Company Dominates Electric Car Batteries](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/business/china-catl-electric-car-batteries.html)** > > Beijing gave CATL lavish subsidies, a captive market of buyers and soft regulatory treatment, helping it to control a crucial technology of the future. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fun-with-old-electric-car-batteries/181412/2 "2021-12-23T13:01:53Z")
Gee, jamming a metal conductor through a flat plate style battery cell with both fuel and oxidizers shorts it and causes an explosion… who’da figured that? Duh! ---
**Author:** ![Cavell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cavell/32/43396_2.png) [@Cavell](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Cavell)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fun-with-old-electric-car-batteries/181412/3 "2021-12-23T13:53:42Z")
the more i hear about china and its communist dictatorship structure, the more i dislike it. how can we keep 1 billion people busy? make things? dominate world economy? sell stuff cheaper then any foreign country can make it for. and then what? ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fun-with-old-electric-car-batteries/181412/4 "2021-12-24T00:59:34Z")
> [@Cavell](#): > > how can we keep 1 billion people busy? Because of the one-child policy and a preference for sons (who take care of parents in their old age, not daughters), China has a ‘surplus’ of 30 million young men. The traditional application of young men is war: you win even if you lose. ---
**Author:** ![Cavell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cavell/32/43396_2.png) [@Cavell](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Cavell)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fun-with-old-electric-car-batteries/181412/5 "2021-12-24T14:46:18Z")
Watch some battery rebuild videos from India. Interesting process. I think I bought one a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fun-with-old-electric-car-batteries/181412/6 "2021-12-24T15:12:37Z")
> [@RandomTroll](#): > > Because of the one-child policy They abolished that policy 5 years ago, and replaced it with a two-child per couple limit. A few months ago, the two-child limit was scrapped, and as of now, there is a limit of three children per couple in China. > **[China allows three children in major policy shift](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57303592)** > > The change comes after a move to a two-child limit failed to stop a decline in birth rates. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fun-with-old-electric-car-batteries/181412/7 "2021-12-24T15:24:17Z")
Speaking of batteries and disasters… > **[Nine E-Bike Batteries Cause Huge NYC Apartment Fire](https://jalopnik.com/nine-e-bike-batteries-cause-huge-nyc-apartment-fire-1848241582)** > > A lithium-ion battery explosion leaves one person dead and seven others injured ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2021, 2:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fun-with-old-electric-car-batteries/181412/8 "2021-12-25T02:33:48Z")
That takes time to have an effect, and a lot of women aren’t choosing to have more than 1.