SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Carmakers in South Korea are moving toward disclosing the brand information of batteries used in their electric vehicles in response to consumer doubts over the safety of EV batteries. Public concerns over EV safety have mounted in the country after aspontaneous fire that began in a parked Mercedes-Benz EV [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Almost fully charged electric vehicles will be discouraged from entering apartment underground parking garages to prevent overcharging that is often blamed for EV fires, the Seoul city government said Friday. The city government said it will push to block the entry of EVs that are more than 90 percent [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Questions have been raised over the crisis response capacity of Mercedes-Benz Korea Ltd., as the company remained largely silent for over a week on an electric vehicle (EV) fire scare that started from one of its vehicles. Public concerns over EV safety mounted in the country after aspontaneous fire [...]
HONGSEONG, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Chungnam Fire Service Headquarters announced that it had succeeded in developing so-called ‘water pocket’ technology to quickly create a firefighting water tank needed to extinguish electric vehicle (EV) fires. Water pocket technology uses a double tightening method by installing thin steel wires in a double layer format for [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Fire Academy recently carried out a test to extinguish an electric vehicle (EV) fire using a prototype of a mobile water bath at a parking lot in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province. Compared to ordinary internal combustion engine vehicles, it’s not easy to extinguish EV fires since [...]