Garbage truck fires are never ideal, but they are usually not catastrophic. When a fire broke out on December 6 in the back of a garbage truck making its Friday rounds through the Chicago suburb of ...

Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere, powering everything from consumer electronics to electric vehicles, residential PV storage systems, and, more recently, mitigating curtailment in large-scale wind ...

This incident is a stark reminder of how dangerous lithium-ion battery fires can be, especially when combined with other volatile elements like CNG cylinders. The thermal runaway effect in lithium-ion ...