Mandatory EV battery standards coming soon: What Nitin Gadkari said about penalizing companies – Times of India

The government is all set to announce the long coming, mandatory electric vehicle battery standards within the next 2 to 3 months. The standardization mandate includes testing of components such as battery components and cells and modules that go into an EV’s battery pack. Once installed, companies that fail to comply with the standards for manufacturing these battery packs will have to pay hefty fines. However, in a special conversation, the Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari told TOI that the mandatory rules will come into force only after the manufacturers are duly notified. Gadkari said, “We should not penalize the manufacturers before notifying the update rules.

Sources have further indicated that the notification of new standards and testing protocols for two wheelers and four wheelers EV Battery Pack Will be announced as well. Once implemented, the government may make it mandatory for automakers to sell only electric vehicles with standard/regulation-compliant battery packs.

According to government officials, the conformity of production (COP) norms will be notified by the government before the mandate comes into force. This means that random samples of manufactured battery packs will be picked up from companies to verify whether they are complying with the standards set out in the mandate. From now on it will be taken before the EV model goes into mass production, at present, there are no existing COP provisions for EVs.