There are few inside the battery industry who haven't seen a video of a lithium-ion cell going into thermal runaway, shooting out flames and gas like some kind of giant firework.
There are enough battery specialists who can appreciate and calculate the release of energy from such devices and have the imagination to visualise the domino effect that could take place when one defective cell goes wrong in a pallet containing maybe several thousand cells.
There are plenty of battery specialists who've come across the unscrupulous and counterfeit battery manufacturers . . .
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