Ford Kuga Battery Fires.

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My EE sense tells me that the cells thenselves are not the cause of any of the fires.

Plus as I understand it, the MME uses LG Chem cells that are the same ones going in many BEVs by many auto manufacturers. If they were the problem, it would presumably be manifesting itself in many different vehicles. But it's not. Seems to be a specific part on the Kuga pack (BECM?) that was getting overloaded and failing. That had already been replaced on the production line after that specified date.

And since that was a small 18 kWh PHEV battery, I doubt the same part was used on large MME battery packs.

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I haven't been able to find much info on the Kuga/Escape battery pack, except capacity and that they are liquid cooled.

But interestingly enough, the battery pack in the Aviator/Explorer PHEV are LG CHEM pouch cells, which leads me to believe they would be same supplier for the Kuga/Escape (kinda like Johnson Controls-Saft supplied the PHEV batteries to Ford from 2012-2017).