Welcome to the Electric Vehicle
Safer Charging System for Apartments

This course helps apartment owners, residents, EV owners, body corporate, owners committees and strata managers understand and reduce electric vehicle battery fire risk, with simple steps to design, install and maintain safer EV charging sites.

The EV Safer Charging System is designed to support your EV charging roll out through:

Latest global EV fire data

Identifying EV battery fire risks

Sensible risk mitigation resources

The EV SCS for Apartments is delivered as a self-guided online course, and you can join one of our regular webinars.

Reduce EV battery fire risk

Electric vehicle battery fires are rare, but when they do occur they present new risks and challenges for everyone.

EV FireSafe's database shows approx 15% of fires happen while the EV is connected to energised charging, with around a third of those in a publicly accessible car park.

This online, self-guided course steps through real-world data and all the resources you need to take sensible actions to better protect life and property safety.
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The EV Safer Charging System...

...is used, referenced and recommended by major brands, the Australian Department of Defence, insurance companies, fire agencies and charging providers all over the world.

This sensible, easy-to-follow system will raise your awareness and reduce your risk of an EV battery fire at your charging site.

What you'll find inside the EV SCS for Apartments:

Knowledge

Likelihood of an EV battery fire and why they happen at charging

Risks

To users, residents, emergency responders and the built environment

What's included?

Design, Install and Maintain

Regulation, standards and best practice for compliance and safety

Resources

The paperwork done for you, including signage, pre-incident plans and checklists

Owners and residents

Get the data and guidance you need to be more comfortable with EVs and charging

EV owners

Support for safer installation of charging (so you stay friendly with your neighbours!)

Designed to support...

Owners committee and strata managers

Support and resources for working with your Building Surveyor, Fire Engineer, Fire Agency and Insurance Company.

Are concerns about fire risk holding back EV charging in your building?

Do any of these sentences sound familiar?
  • I've heard EVs catch fire all the time and they're meant to be really intense
  • I saw on Facebook that EVs are a fire threat to the building 
  • If EV charging is the carpark it could set the building on fire
  • Our insurance might not cover the damage or renew our policy if EV charging is installed
  • As a member of the OC I could be financially or criminally liable if something happens
  • EV owners in the building are annoyed there's no charging
  • EVs are here, and our property prices may suffer if we don't offer charging

"We don't know enough about EV fire risk to plan EV charging for the building"

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All the resources you need for safer EV charging sites

From initial proposal to annual inspections, you'll have access to a massive range of resources, including:
  • EV SCS Design Checklist
  • EV SCS Install Checklist
  • EV SCS Maintain Checklist
  • EV Safety at Charging Sites poster
  • EV Charging Site Signage
  • EV Charging Site Directional Stickers
  • Pre-Incident Plan for EV Charging Sites
  • EV SCS Fire Safety Action Plan
  • EV Charging Weekly Maintenance Plan
  • EV Charging Annual Maintenance Plan
  • BONUS: Other lithium-ion battery fire risks
  • BONUS: PMD battery fire risk mitigations

Design, Install and Maintain your Safer EV Charging Site now!

Here's what's in the EV SCS...

Complete from anywhere, anytime on any device

Identify and reduce your risk of an EV battery fire

Raise the level of risk awareness in your building

Use our safer, sensible, cost-effective system 

Your vital step to building a safer electric vehicle charging site

Introducing your expert instructors

Emma Sutcliffe

EV FireSafe director
Emma is the Director of EV FireSafe, a private company funded by the Australian Department of Defence to research EV battery fires & emergency response. She is also an operational volunteer firefighter.

Dan Fish

EV FireSafe TECHNICAL SPECIALIST
Dan is EV FireSafe's Technical Specialist & EV safety guru. He started his career as a mechanic & became a full-time firefighter 20 years ago. He now has an encyclopaedic knowledge of EVs & high voltage systems.

Professor Paul Christensen

lithium-ion safety
Paul is a former Professor of Pure & Applied Electrochemisty at Newcastle University, UK. His work in lithium-ion battery fires is globally recognised for it's contribution to safety.

The EV FireSafe team are

#thought leading | #globally recognised | #data-driven | #safety focused | #evidence based 

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