An electric vehicle fire is not a car fire with a different fuel. A damaged or overheating traction battery goes into thermal runaway — a self-sustaining chemical reaction that produces its own oxygen, resists extinguishing agents, releases toxic gas, and can reignite hours or even days after the visible flames stop. Water alone often can't reach the cells. The Steel Guard EV Fire Blanket is built for that reality: drape it over the vehicle to contain the fire, block radiant heat from spreading to adjacent cars and structure, and control smoke until responders take over.

This is a heavy-duty reusable blanket, not a thin single-use drape. It's cut and sewn in our US factory from Draft-Tex™ fabric, built on Newtex Z-Block® silicone-coated fiberglass rated 1,800°F (982°C) continuous, and constructed to the design and test parameters of DIN SPEC 91489:2024-11 — the European standard written specifically for electric vehicle fire blankets. Part of our lithium battery fire protection line.

Who Uses These

Parking structures and garages · EV charging sites and dealerships · Auto service and collision shops · Tow and recovery operators · Fire departments and first responders · Ferries and vehicle transport · Fleet depots · Municipal parking · Airport and stadium lots

Two Standard Sizes

• 20' × 26' — standard passenger cars, sedans, and compact SUVs. The size most parking structures and charging sites standardize on. $2,795
• 22' × 30' — full-size SUVs, pickups, electric trucks, and vans, with full ground overlap on all sides. $3,295
• Custom size — buses, RVs, delivery vehicles, or specialized applications. Enter your dimensions for instant pricing; produced in 2–3 weeks.

What an EV Fire Blanket Costs — and Why the Range Is So Wide

You'll find "EV fire blankets" online from about $800 to over $4,000, and the spread isn't margin — it's three different products.

Single-use drapes ($800–1,400): thin coated glass, often rated around 1,000°F or lower, designed to be thrown away after one deployment. Some list a maximum working temperature below the temperature a lithium-ion fire actually reaches. Fine for a one-time emergency stock item; expensive if you ever train with it.

Light-duty imports ($1,400–2,400): roughly 480 g/m² single-layer fabric — about half the weight of a heavy-duty blanket — usually imported and frequently backordered or out of stock in the US.

Heavy-duty reusable ($2,700–4,100): multi-layer-capable construction, 1,800°F continuous ratings, load-rated handles, built to be deployed and returned to service. That's where ours sits — at the bottom of that tier, because we're the manufacturer and there's no importer or distributor markup in the price.

Reusable — the Difference That Compounds

Most EV blankets sold in the US are single-use. One deployment — a real event, a training exercise, even a false alarm — and a four-figure blanket is scrap. Ours is engineered for a working life: deploy it in drills, train your responders on it, inspect it annually, clean off contamination, refold it, and return it to service. Only after exposure to an actual fire is it retired, which is true of any lithium-ion blanket, because the coating in the contact zone sacrifices itself to protect the fabric beneath. If your department or facility runs annual drills, a reusable blanket pays for itself against a disposable in the first training cycle.

Built for Real Deployment

A 20-foot blanket is only useful if two people can actually get it over a burning car. Ours is built around that: every deployment loop is red for instant identification in heavy smoke, corner loops are supplemented with side-edge loops so no grab point is more than about six feet apart, and every loop is a 2-inch reinforced strap on a backed doubler, built and tested to a 125 kg (275 lb) shock load. Deployment is a controlled drag — two people take the leading corners and pull the blanket over the vehicle while side crews walk alongside, so nobody reaches across the leading edge.

Sizing

The blanket must cover the vehicle completely and lie flat on the ground at least 20 inches (0.5 m) past it on every side. That ground overlap is what starves the fire and blocks radiant heat from reaching the car parked next to it. Measure your largest expected vehicle, add roughly 40 inches to each dimension, and round up. Standard passenger cars take the 20' × 26'; if you're covering full-size trucks, EUVs, or vans — or you want one blanket that handles anything that pulls in — take the 22' × 30'.

What's Included

Every blanket ships as a complete, deployment-ready kit — not a folded blanket in a box.

• The blanket — Draft-Tex™ construction, serialized, with permanent identification label
• Wheeled storage box — an EV-sized blanket exceeds practical carry weight, so it ships in a wheeled box that doubles as the deployment cart: roll it to the vehicle, flip the lid, pull
• Weatherproof document pouch — mounted to the blanket, readable without unpacking
• Audit-ready documentation pack — laminated emergency deployment card, serialized product identification record, safety and use information, and an inspection & service log

Optional add-on: a wall-mounted Station Kit case with mounting hardware — our sewn rip-open vinyl case that keeps the blanket mounted and instantly deployable beside a charging station, with the deployment card visible on the face.

Availability

Imported EV blankets are stocked in limited quantities in the US, with backorders running up to three months — and at the moment several of the best-known models, and their wall-mount accessories, are simply out of stock. Because we manufacture domestically, stocked sizes ship in 1–2 business days, custom sizes in 2–3 weeks, and fleet orders of 30 or more in 2–3 weeks. Your order goes onto our cutting table, not onto a boat. Contact us for fleet and municipal pricing.

Reusable Heavy-Duty vs. Single-Use Drape