PAS 7060:2021

This standard PAS 7060:2021 Electric vehicles. Safe and environmentally-conscious design and use of batteries. Guide is classified in these ICS categories:

• 43.120 Electric road vehicles

This PAS provides guidance for vehicle categories: motorcycles L1e, L2e, L3e, L4e, L5e, L6e, L7e; passenger cars M1, M2; light goods vehicles N1.

NOTE 1 The vehicle categories are defined in the European Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 [1] and (EU) No 2018/858 [2].

NOTE 2 It is recommended that this PAS be used in conjunction with and be limited by the scopes of PAS 7061 and PAS 7062.

This PAS gives guidance for the health, safety and environmental considerations in the process of vehicle design, battery integration and battery use for EVs and PHEVs.

This PAS is intended to create efficiencies in the vehicle manufacturing cycle, de-risk batteries in use, optimize re-use and recycling of vehicle batteries and ultimately improve consumer confidence in EVs and PHEVs.

This PAS covers general health, safety (including fire), competency and environmental impact considerations in vehicle design and use, and provides a specific focus on:

• vehicle manufacture;

• repair and recycling;

• interaction with battery management systems;

• mechanical and electrical integrity and isolation postcrash;

• vehicle dismantling;

• preparing for second life use of battery; and

• health data.

It does not cover vehicles other than those listed above, charging systems that do not form part of the vehicle and the health, safety and environmental requirements and considerations in the manufacture of battery cells (and electrodes), battery packs and modules which are being addressed separately.

This PAS is for use by battery and automotive manufacturers.

This PAS is also of interest to commercial vehicle manufacturers (M3, N2 and N3 categories), off-highway vehicle and rail vehicle manufacturers, government, regulators, insurance companies, local authorities, shipping, automotive distributors, dealerships, repairers and dismantlers and emergency services.