Eastern Germany is home to some of the world’s most advanced ‘torture chambers’. Here, water, fire, high-voltage current and even dust are used to press and squeeze, twist and strike, shake and hammer the beating hearts of the technology we use every day, like electric vehicles.
At Europe’s largest battery testing centre, they put batteries into every imaginable situation to see what happens. Whether they explode, survive or thrive, it’s better to find out here than in a consumer’s garage.
