Reaction of Batteries to Hypervelocity Impact

[Patrick W]

Article in the current (February 2017) issue of NASA's Orbital Debris Quarterly News.

Reaction of Spacecraft Batteries to Hypervelocity Impact
https://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/quarterly-news/pdfs/odqnv21i1.pdf

Probably nothing we need to worry about while driving Teslas today but who knows how fast the good Mr. Musk will have them going in the future.

 

[docherf]

It's nice to know if my battery gets hit by something going 15,000 mph, thermal runaway might not occur.

 

[NikeWings]

It's nice to know if my battery gets hit by something going 15,000 mph, thermal runaway might not occur.

Shouldn't be long now, until our bio hazard defense mode is OTA upgraded with a hypervelocity force field for the ultimate micrometeoroid and orbital debris mode available on earth.

 

[lklundin]

Probably nothing we need to worry about while driving Teslas today but who knows how fast the good Mr. Musk will have them going in the future.

The NCAP crash velocity is at 64 km/h for a reason, at about 100 km/h even a perfect vehicle crumble zone will still subject you to G-forces that will separate your aorta from your heart.

At such G-forces your batteries will make an absolutely fine salvage purchase, so no need to worry now or in the future.

 

[scaesare]

Good to know for the Hyperloop...