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China: New standard GB 38031-2025 “Safety Requirements for Power Batteries for Electric Vehicles”.   On April 3, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology officially released GB 38031-2025 “Safety Requirements for Power Batteries for Electric Vehicles”. This new regulation, known as the “strictest battery safety order in history”, will be implemented on July 1,...

Vietnam: National technical regulation on electric vehicle charging equipment   Vietnam has published National technical regulation on electric vehicle charging equipment QCVN xx:2025/BKHCN. The draft national technical regulation stipulates the safety requirements for EV conductive supply equipment used for charging electric road vehicles, with a rated supply voltage up to 1 000 V AC or...

China: New GB standard on Electric vehicle charging piles   China has published a new National Standard of the P.R.C., Minimum allowable values of energy efficiency and energy efficiency grades for electric vehicle charging piles. The document specifies the energy efficiency grades, minimum allowable values of energy efficiency, and testing methods of electric vehicle charging...

China: New GB standards for energy consumption of cars   China has published two new standards relating to the energy consumption of cars – one for fuel, and one for electric cars.  These standards are: GB 27999—XXXX Fuel consumption evaluation methods and targets for passenger cars GB 36980.1—XXXX Energy consumption limits for electric vehicles—Part 1:...

China: CCC certification for EV energy transfer equipment   China has published a new draft regulation CNCA-CXX-0X:202X General Implementation Rules of China Compulsory Certification for EV energy transfer equipment. It specifies the following issues on China Compulsory Certification (CCC) of EV energy transfer equipment: scope of application, base standards, certification mode, certification unit classification, application...

China: Two new standards for electric vehicle charging   China has published two new standards for electric vehicle charging: Safety requirements for electric vehicle conductive charging system (new) Safety requirements of electric vehicle conductive supply equipment (replacing the voluntary standard GB/T 39752-2021 as a mandatory standard) The first one specifies the general safety principles ,...

Saudi Arabia: Amendments to the Technical Regulations for Electric Vehicles   Saudi Arabia has published an amended version of its Technical Regulations for Electric Vehicles 03-04-17-162. The changes affect the following articles: – Amendments to Article (1) Terms and Definitions. – Amendments to Article (2) Scope. – Amendments to Article (3) Objectives. – Amendments to...

Chile: Changes to the electric vehicle regulation   Chile has announced a new law changing the existing Supreme Decree Nº 145, of 2017 on electric vehicles. The following aspects have been taken into consideration by the legislator: The Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications seeks to maintain an updated regulatory agenda, carrying out a process of...