Inside a $2M Porsche 918 Battery That Survived a Fire

August 4, 2025 334994 Views

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This $2,000,000 Porsche 918 burned to the ground… but somehow, its 11-year-old battery survived.
So obviously, I had to take it apart.

In this video, we crack open the hybrid battery from a fire-damaged Porsche 918 Spyder — and what we found inside is insane. Despite being roasted and over a decade old, the battery still looks like a piece of EV engineering art. Built by Williams Advanced Engineering, this thing has thermal design features that outperform even some modern EVs.

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