Electric Vehicle Car Safety

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41 Countries Agree Safety Standards for Electric, Hybrid Vehicles

The World Forum is a subsidiary body of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, UNECE, which develops vehicle regulations aimed at increasing vehicle safety and environmental performance....

More than 50 countries, as well as vehicle manufacturers, consumers and road users, participate in the drafting of these regulations, which are adopted by representatives of the countries....


Electric vehicles operate at very high voltages, in the range of 500 volts, so regulators say it is essential to require protection against the risk of electric shocks...

The revised UNECE Regulation 100 will ensure the safety of electric cars by setting out how users of cars shall be protected from the high voltage parts of cars.

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Germany, DEKRA Automobil GmbH says EV batteries are safe.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...ate-their-safety-in-fire-tests-176338721.html

In this series of tests, three traction batteries from an electric vehicle currently on the market were set alight and then extinguished using different extinguishing agents. "We wanted to find out how batteries really behave in a fire and when the fire is being extinguished and how much extinguishing agent is needed," says Markus Egelhaaf from DEKRA Accident Research.

All in all, the accident researchers concluded that, in the event of a fire, electric and hybrid vehicles equipped with lithium-ion traction batteries are at least as safe as petrol or diesel cars.