VIDEO: The University of Arizona is turning its research efforts to electric vehicles and ensuring their safety. Car battery fires can happen in the blink of an eye, and they can be extremely dangerous.
Students at the UA believes the solution to this issue may lie in artificial intelligence.
“So we wanted to see if we can use, somehow, artificial intelligence to predict this kind of phenomena,” said Basab Ranjan Das Goswami, a PHD student in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the UA College of Engineering. “It would save, like, a lot of lives and property and you know, damages and everything.”
Das Goswami explained that there are chemical reactions that happen inside a car battery that causes heat generation, and in some cases that growing heat gets out of control — causing a battery to catch fire.