Carona couple is suing an e-cig manufacturer after battery exploded.

[RudeBoy007]

Corona Couple Sues After E-Cigarette Battery Explodes In Car « CBS Los Angeles

Sounds like it was pretty bad, flames shooting out and the wife was burned...

 

[Vocalek]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/13/business/lithium-ion-battery-standards-are-tightened.html?_r=0

Standards Are Tightened for Lithium-Ion batteries
By REUTERS
Published: June 12, 2013


DETROIT — Underwriters Laboratories, a company that develops product safety tests, is strengthening its lithium-ion battery standards after a string of battery failures that shed light on the technology’s weak spots.

Those vulnerabilities were highlighted this year when regulators grounded Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner for nearly four months after lithium-ion batteries overheated on two jets in January, leading to a fire in one.

It isn't just e-cigarette batteries. All lithium ion batteries need stronger standards.

 

[Kurt]

Yes, this is similar to all those cell phones with Li-ion batteries that caught fire in peoples' pockets forcing the government to ban all cell phones...wait...

 

[Elnroth]

Yes, this is similar to all those cell phones with Li-ion batteries that caught fire in peoples' pockets forcing the government to ban all cell phones...wait...

Don't forget the laptops either . . .

 

[diog]

flooded cart in an unsealed battery?