Overcharging batteries eyed in Boeing 787 fires

By Joan Lowy, Associated Press

Friday, Jan. 18, 2013 | 3:03 p.m.

WASHINGTON — It's likely that fires on two Boeing 787 Dreamliners were caused by overcharging lithium ion batteries, aviation safety and battery experts said Friday, pointing to developments in the investigation of the Boeing incidents as well as a battery fire in a business jet more than a year ago. An investigator in Japan, where a 787 made an emergency landing earlier this week, said the charred insides of the plane's lithium ion battery show the battery received voltage in excess of its design limits. The similarity of the burned battery from the All Nippon Airways flight to the burned ...

Associated Press writer Malcolm Foster contributed to this report.

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By Bob635

Jan. 18, 2013

4:09 p.m.

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It is sad that Chevron owns the patents for large scale Nickel Metal Hydride batteries. They refuse to allow production of large NiMH batteries BECAUSE THEY WERE USED IN THE EV 1 electric cars that were great.

Chevron, because of their oil greed, is putting airline passenger lives at risk.

But,as we know, the 99% are expendable for greed and rich people.