September 23 – 24, 2026 | Ingolstadt/Reichertshofen, Germany

The SafeBattery Experience

The “Experience” Factor: Exploring Labs and Operations

A defining element of the carhs Experience Events is their multi-venue format. Rather than being anchored to a single venue, the events rotate across carefully selected host facilities, giving participants direct behind-the-scenes insight into the infrastructure, operational processes, and technical capabilities of leading battery safety laboratories.

Knowledge Transfer for Testing and Project Engineers

Direct insight into how established and newly commissioned facilities solve operational challenges provides valuable practical learning for testing and project engineers. Participants return with actionable lessons, a clearer understanding of laboratory capabilities, and a stronger basis for selecting the right test partners and validation strategies.

Multi-Physics Focus

Battery safety is a true multi-physics challenge, shaped by the complex interaction of thermal, electrical, mechanical, and chemical effects. The event explores how advanced virtual development methods and physical abuse testing complement each other to better understand failure mechanisms, validate safety concepts, and accelerate the development of safer battery systems.

Networking for Battery Safety Professionals

A Curated Expert Community

Unlike broad industry conferences, the event brings together a focused group of specialists in battery safety, regulation, simulation, testing, and rescue operations. This unique expert density creates high-value technical exchange among peers facing similar challenges.

Designed for Real Technical Exchange

The manageable event size and laboratory setting foster an interactive atmosphere with direct access to speakers and experts. Discussions go beyond presentations, enabling meaningful technical dialogue rather than one-way information transfer.

An Annual Point of Alignment

For many participants, the event has become an annual synchronization point for the battery safety community—a place to reconnect with peers, benchmark progress, and discuss how the industry is evolving from virtual development to physical validation and real-world implementation.

2025 DEKRA Battery Test Center

DEKRA’s newly opened Battery Test Center at the Lausitzring gave The SafeBattery Experience participants a unique behind-the-scenes look at one of the world’s most advanced independent battery testing facilities. Opened in 2025, the center combines end-to-end battery validation under one roof - from abuse, mechanical, environmental, and performance testing to full-scale indoor fire testing with advanced flue gas treatment. Integrated into DEKRA’s broader e-mobility and proving ground infrastructure, it enables everything from component-level stress testing to full-vehicle fire scenarios, offering direct insight into the future of battery safety testing.

2024 Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics (EMI)

The inaugural conference was hosted by the Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics (EMI), one of Europe’s foremost research centers for crash dynamics and safety engineering.

Inside the Failure Event
Using its world-renowned X-ray crash facility, participants gained a rare realtime view into the internal behavior of battery cells during thermal runaway and crash events—revealing failure mechanisms that remain invisible in conventional testing environments.