Euralarm Webinar: Fire Safety in EV Parking Garages
Euralarm will organize a webinar on Fire safety in EV parking garages on October 14, 2025.
The rise of electric vehicles (EVs) has brought both environmental benefits and new safety challenges. The nature of EV construction is to protect the battery cells from weather, surface water spray, and damage in normal use, and this presents a challenge in delivering extinguishant to the cells. Therefore, it is extremely challenging, if not impossible, to stop in-cell thermal runaway inside the traction battery or slowing cell to cell propagation.
Euralarm’s latest guidance unpacks the fire risk disparity between EVs and ICE vehicles, the unique dangers of thermal battery events, and the critical steps needed to mitigate them effectively.
The scope of this webinar, presented by Euralarm’s Vice Chair of the Extinguishing Section, Gerd Hülsen, is to provide factual information on the fire risk of electrical vehicles in parking facilities in comparison with other types of vehicles and to guide through solutions that can be applied. We will discuss fire behaviors and safety measures associated with both electric and combustion vehicles.
This webinar is especially interesting for:
- Fire safety professionals
- Parking facility operators and managers
- Facility managers for commercial, residential, and public buildings
- Policymakers and regulators at municipal, national, and EU level
- Technology & innovation experts
- Installers and system integrators
Register here for this event.
About Euralarm
Euralarm represents the electronic fire and security industry, providing leadership and expertise for industry, market, policy makers and standards bodies. Our Members make society safer and secure through systems and services for fire detection and extinguishing, intrusion detection, access control, video monitoring, alarm transmission and alarm receiving centres. Founded in 1970, Euralarm represents over 5000 companies within the fire safety and security industry valued at 67 billion Euros. Euralarm Members are national associations and individual companies from across Europe.
