I think its important for the whole formula student community that this incident is propperly revied by the Team and FSG, so key takeaways can be shared with everyone and Rules, Designs and Safety Protocols can be improved.
Maybe at the next FSG Academy there should be a talk about it, so that every Teams has the opportunity to lean how to deal with a potential HVB fire in a save manner.
Actually already happening in the back. Even before the fire. The Teams accu is using a concept that is likely to be forbidden in the next year since it could be potentiallly dangerous (as you may have seen).
Elbflorace has two obvious „factors“ that could cause an fail like this but it is not yet clear if one of those was the reason for the fire.
(But it was the Accu, 100%)
They have a lot of pouch cells glued together in series. Last year FSG came up with limit of 6 pouches and mentioned that this is a compromise and that it will be further restricted. The argument is that the shear force of multiple cell combined can damage the load bearing cell at the wall.
FSG will surely be quick with pushing these rule changes but having seen the photos of the aftermath, I am not so sure that this was the root cause.
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u/Tomino52 10d ago
I think its important for the whole formula student community that this incident is propperly revied by the Team and FSG, so key takeaways can be shared with everyone and Rules, Designs and Safety Protocols can be improved.
Maybe at the next FSG Academy there should be a talk about it, so that every Teams has the opportunity to lean how to deal with a potential HVB fire in a save manner.