There's an interesting pdf here from Boeing about the Dreamliner battery problem which now seems to have been resolved. Essentially Boeing appear to have made a range of improvements to the battery itself, changed the charging system and put the battery in a stainless steel box vented outside the aircraft.
The faulty battery was quite a mess judging from the picture below, taken from Boeing's pdf. It's not a process with which I'm familiar, but Boeing seem to have been pretty upfront about the episode.
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Possibly better to stick to boats. They don't plummet when the battery goes pair shaped.
James - dry land is even safer (:
An old draughtsman told me:- If in doubt, make it stout, out of things you know about.
Snag is no-one really knows about lithium batteries. I await the upcoming electric racing car races with interest, it will either be very boring or rather too interesting.
Roger - you are right, nobody really knows about lithium batteries. The Nissan Leaf uses lithium so I wouldn't touch it - quite apart from the range.
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