News / Bolloré warehouse fire raises new concerns over lithium battery safety

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Insurer TT Club has issued fresh warnings about the storage of lithium-ion batteries, following last week’s massive fire at Bolloré Logistics’ warehouse in France.

According to social media posts, smoke and flames were visible from the southern UK shores as the blaze, which started in the warehouse in Grand Couronne, Normandy, containing 8,000 automotive lithium-ion batteries, spread to a Districash Group facility storing some 70,000 tyres.

It followed incidents last year on electric buses operated by Bolloré Group’s Bluebus company. The vehicles had ...