Fire service to probe rise in blazes from batteries

DEVON'S fire service is to explore data around electric vehicle (EV) battery fires as it ramps up efforts to encourage wider responsibility around batteries.

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There has been a rise in EV fires, as well as those linked to other lithium-ion batteries, including in October when the M5 in Devon was shut after a car transporter carrying nine electric vehicles were subsumed by fire. Other incidents have seen another lorry catch fire on the motorway, with that vehicle also understood to be carrying batteries, and bin lorries have also caught fire, wit