As your are well aware, Boeing has grounded their fleet of 787's due to battery fires. I am not an aeronautical engineer, but if I worked at Boeing and was asked "what caused the problem?", without knowing anything about the workings of the airplane or of battery technology, my answer would be: Aircraft design tries to save weight for more payload. Therefore batteries, being heavy, have to be kept as light as possible. That being the case, the problem I would think is less batteries being used to save weight, resulting in excessive load on the batteries, hence failure. This is my layman's take of the situation. What do you think?
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