Battery Safety Across Industries: Applying Automotive Experience to Marine and Defense
As battery systems take on a bigger role in ships, naval vessels and defense platforms, the question is no longer whether to electrify but how to do it safely. Lithium-ion batteries bring clear benefits in efficiency, emissions and operational flexibility. They also bring risks, such as thermal runaway, fire propagation and hidden degradation, which are especially serious in confined, remote or mission-critical environments where evacuation and external help may be limited.
The automotive and aerospace sectors have spent years building up testing methods, safety standards and field experience with large-scale battery systems. This panel discussion explores how that knowledge can be carried over to strengthen battery safety in marine and defense applications, and where these sectors face challenges of their own.
The panel will:
compare battery safety regulations and standards across key markets, highlighting gaps, overlaps and differences in approach
discuss which proven practices from automotive and aerospace transfer well to marine and defense settings, and which need to be adapted
examine best practices for detecting early degradation, evaluating battery health and identifying failure risks before they become critical
Panelists
Augusto Mattos Schaedler, Senior Director R&D, Power and Ground Systems, Terma
Dr. Markus Fasching, Project Senior Scientist, Vehicle Safety Institute, Graz University of Technology
Iben Hansen-Bruhn, R&D Specialist in Fire Safety & Technology, Danish Institute of Fire and Security Technology (DBI)
Teemu Kyläkallio, Head of Department / R&D, Rauma Marine Constructions
Together, the panelists bring perspectives from defense systems, vehicle safety research, fire safety and shipbuilding. The webinar is aimed at engineers, safety managers, system integrators, regulators and decision-makers working with battery systems in maritime, defense and related industries.
Join us to learn how lessons learned on the road and in the air can help make batteries safer at sea and in the field.