One of the most critical safety concerns for electric vehicles is keeping their batteries cool.

With high temperatures like we see here in Arizona, it can lead to dangerous consequences.

However, new research at the University of Arizona proposes a way to prevent these issues.

“Recently in the last couple of years, we’ve seen a tremendous increase of fires in electric vehicles that are associated with battery overheating,” said Professor Vitaliy Yurkiv.

U of A researchers are developing a framework that uses A.I. and machine learning models to sense, predict and identify lithium-ion battery overheating, known as thermal runaway.