Tag: Battery

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) constituted a committee in May 2022 to formulate the safety requirements for traction batteries. It was constituted mainly in the wake of fire incidents in electric vehicles, and this had experts from several renowned institutes, including ARCI, IISc, IIT etc. Based on the committee’s recommendation, MoRTH had proposed amendments to the AIS 156 & AIS 138 Rev 3 standard, which comes into effect in a phase-wise manner from 01-Dec-2022.