Webinar: Fire Protection Materials: A Key Defence Against EV Thermal Runaway
Presenter: Dr Shababa Selim, Senior Technology Analyst, IDTechEx
Date: Thursday October 1, 2026
With more electric vehicles (EVs) on the road, their safety becomes an increasingly important topic. EV technology and battery design are also evolving rapidly, and this has posed a challenge to not just the vehicle OEMs but also regulators trying to impose effective safety standards. A key method of enabling EV battery fire safety is the adoption of passive fire protection materials.
Given the variety of battery designs, there is a large selection of material solutions in use and proposed for providing fire protection and thermal runaway propagation prevention. As the market evolves and regulations become more stringent, this will enforce greater adoption of existing and new fire protective materials within the EV battery.
In this webinar, IDTechEx Senior Technology Analyst Dr Shababa Selim will draw on research from the new IDTechEx market report "Fire Protection Materials for EV Batteries 2027-2037: Markets, Trends, and Forecasts to provide:
· An overview of thermal runaway in EVs and regulatory landscape
· Cell formats and cell-to-pack battery structure
· Options and examples for fire protection materials in EV batteries
· Insights on trends and market share predictions based on IDTechEx forecasts
Choose your preferred time zone - the webinar runs three times during the day.
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