By Greg Gao
Five ministries of China, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, jointly issued a “Guidelines on Further Strengthening the Construction of New Energy Vehicle Enterprises' Safety System” to promote the safe and healthy development of the electric vehicle(EV) industry in China on April 8.
The guideline covers improving the safety level of power batteries, stating that EV enterprises should actively collaborate with power battery suppliers, and optimize the safety matching between the vehicle and power batteries as well as the thermal management strategies. It emphasized that EV manufacturers and power battery suppliers should clarify the safety boundaries of power battery use, and improve the safety of power batteries under the extreme conditions of collision, vibration, extrusion, water immersion, abnormal charge, and discharge.
It also encourages EV firms to increase the R&D of thermal runaway real-time monitoring, warning devices, and early fire-fighting measures.
In order to strengthen supplier management, the document said that EV enterprises should put forward clear product safety requirements for key component suppliers such as power batteries, drive motors, and vehicle control systems, formulate supplier quality evaluation systems.
The document also proposed to improve the EV network security system in three aspects:
1.Strengthen network security protection. Enterprises must implement the requirements of key information infrastructure security protection, network security level protection, real-name registration of car networking cards, and management of automotive product security vulnerabilities.
2.Improve data security protection. EV manufacturers should earnestly fulfill their data security protection obligations, establish and improve the whole-process data security management system.
3.Implement personal information security protection and take corresponding security technical measures such as encryption and de-identification to prevent unauthorized access and leakage, tampering, and loss of personal information.
The newly released document emphasizes its purpose is to guide China’s EV enterprises to speed up the construction of a systematic, scientific and standardized safety system. It calls for comprehensively enhancing the overall safety assurance capabilities of enterprises in safety management mechanism, product quality, operation monitoring, after-sales service, accident response and disposal, network security, improve the safety of EVs, and promote the high-quality development of the industry in China.
