Provided are a battery
assembly and a
battery pack in which the occurrence of
thermal runaway can be suppressed during normal and abnormal operation by efficiently cooling battery cells while suppressing the propagation of heat between the battery cells, and which are easy to design and assemble. Each
battery cell (2) has an
electrode surface (2a) including an
electrode (3), and an outer
peripheral surface (2b) which is a surface orthogonal to the
electrode surface (2a), wherein the battery cells (2) are arranged such that the outer
peripheral surfaces (2b) face one another, and the battery cells (2) are connected in series or in parallel by way of the electrodes (3) and connectors or the like, which are not shown in the drawing. The outer
peripheral surface of each
battery cell (2) is covered by an insulating material (14), and the outer peripheral surface of each insulating material (14) is covered by a heat dissipating member (8), thereby configuring a battery
assembly (40). The heat dissipating member (8) is a tubular body of which both end portions are open, for example, and a plurality of holes (14a) penetrate through the insulating material (14) in the thickness direction thereof, from the surface on the
battery cell (2) side to the surface on the heat dissipating member (8) side.