Violent explosion after the LiPo battery had been heavily overcharged for around 15 minutes.
The major fire in Steckborn on December 21, 2015, was probably started by a lithium polymer battery in a model car, as the Thurgau cantonal police department recently announced. Battery experts from Empa have already conducted overcharging experiments on such batteries and provide tips on how to handle them safely. Lithium polymer batteries (or LiPo batteries for short) are popular among model makers as high-energy storage devices. However, this type of battery is also used in smartphones, tablets, cameras and laptops. Now that one of these batteries evidently caused a blaze in Steckborn, which ripped through six buildings in the old town and left 30 people homeless, should we be afraid? - The results of the investigation conducted by the Thurgau cantonal police department were released on January 8, 2016. According to the report, the fire was started by a model battery plugged into a charger on the third floor of one of the buildings. The same day, Empa battery expert Donat Adams gave several's to journalists on regional radio and television stations, in which he explained the risks of LiPo batteries.
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