Sandia National Laboratories scientists Alex Bates and Loraine Torres-Castro talk about positioning a battery that’s undergoing testing at the Battery Abuse Testing Lab. Their research on electric vehicle batteries aims to detect battery failures more quickly.

A battery is ready for testing in a vault, which includes several layers of shielding and concrete walls, at Sandia National Laboratories’ Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory. Sandia scientists are working to identify methods to detect failures in electric vehicle batteries before the batteries catch fire.