The China Automotive Collision Repair Research and Technology Center demonstrated with a Chery iCar 03T a vehicle that ejects its batteries six meters away if a fire occurs.
Chery publicly denied any involvement in the tests. The iCar sub-brand stated that “this has nothing to do with iCar, please be rational.”
The video shows the car ejecting the batteries like an airbag system. Sensors detect any thermal irregularity in the battery and then eject them to a distance of three to six meters.
The batteries fall into a designated area surrounded by a fireproof blanket, but this caused many on social media to worry about the effectiveness of the safety system, which puts those outside the vehicle at risk.
Photos: X @ChinaEV_Eng_Lif. This content was created with the help of AI and reviewed by the editorial team.
Someone should tell them that for a modern EV battery to go critical it needs quite an heavy impact…which would destroy this „battery ejection system“. pic.twitter.com/toJi8jbfkx
— 🇨🇳China EV, Engineering & Life🇩🇪 (@ChinaEV_Eng_Lif) September 20, 2025
