Session 1: Drivers for Future Battery Safety

• Influences on battery safety like cell chemistry and battery design
• Safety materials for EV-batteries
• Application related testing procedure

• Introduction of NIO – its mission, its products, and its systematic approach
• External safety measures on infrastructure level
• Internal safety requirements of NIO’s batteries

• Insight into the practices of rescue & extrication teams in the context of electrified vehicles
• Organisation of the fire service and its training using Germany as an example
• Setting causes for thought for the design of rescue related vehicle functions

Session 2: Current and Future Requirements

• Overview of current safety standards and regulations for electric vehicle batteries
• International and national tests, standards and regulations that apply in Europe, North America and China
• Specific processes for the homologation of high-voltage components and other relevant vehicle regulations

• Development of test procedures for regulatory purposes for automotive and stationary applications

• Overview of automotive-relevant core requirements in the field of thermal propagation
• Fokus on current and future ratings and regulations

• Concept comparison of cell modules vs. Cell2Pack
• Influence of the concepts on the properties of the storage system
• Procedures and mechanisms for achieving comparable safety levels

Session 3: Testing and Simulation

• Motivating the simulation-based design of battery housings and derivation of requirements
• Transferring the experimentally observed phenomenology during thermal runaway of pouch cells into simulation models
• Capabilities and limitations of current modeling approach

• Factors influencing the failing behavior of a battery are discussed and results of failing state-of-the-art cells will be presented and discussed.
• The focus will be on the comparison of trigger types and the influence of different settings for the same trigger type.
• The results will be compared in the categories: thermal behavior, vent gas production and vent gas composition.

• Overview of the possible testing techniques that can be used and how they fit into the sustainable world of testing technology

Session 4: What is happening in China?

• Current situation of electric vehicle fire safety technology
• Electric Vehicle Fire Mechanisms
• Electric vehicle fire prevention and control technology

Session 5: Short Presentations on Testing and Simulation Technologies

Session 6: Experience