I can't think of any cell we've ever used since 1976 where there hasn't been the odd problem. From venting to disintegration, every type of cell has been misused to the point of failure. Recently it appears that one make of cell has had more of these issues than any other.
Appreciating that this is a guess (so please put your own numbers in if you like) there are 2000 people racing every week. Say they charge 3 times on average, and they do that 30 times a year. That's 180,000 cycles. I can count about 20 incidents quoted of a cell failure that might cause injury, or 0.01%. Any incident that hurts someone is horrific, and that's a very, very small number from which to trace a root cause.
To make things more difficult, there doesn't seem to be any common situation surrounding the incidents that have occured. We need to be patient, let the BRCA/EFRA and their contacts do their work, and hope that there is a resolution that reduces the possibility of an incident. Please also remember that someone has suffered an injury from a pack fitted into a Nitro car (receiver pack), so any action affects almost all RC, not just Electric RC.
I use the same regime as Neil Oliver, and I have not had the problems suffered by others using IBs.
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