The increasing number of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and the larger, heavier batteries they require has necessitated a move to composite battery enclosures. The use of composites is required to achieve this larger, protective, and still lightweight structure. Using composites presents a number of challenges when compared to the traditional metal enclosures; the lightweight structure must still meet the necessary fire, smoke and toxic fume (FST) requirements while also providing shielding to electromagnetic interference (EMI). James Cropper’s (formally TFP) nonwovens provide the solution for this and in the webinar, Neil Gray and Mike Campbell will discuss how our materials can easily be incorporated directly into the composite battery box structure to provide the required FST and EMI shielding functionality.
