CPOS is an industry body representing EV charging station companies. It claims to have 21 members with over 3000 EV charging points in place. On Monday, the members of the society also committed to install 4000-5000 EV chargers as a pilot project over 2000 locations in Central Delhi.
The safety recommendations have been made for battery swapping and charging infrastructure. They follow the draft battery swapping policy floated by Niti Aayog.
“Battery monitoring systems should also have a black box feature to capture the root cause of failure or fire to minimise post-incident investigations,” CPOS said. This should be done to help identify the battery failures, volatile thermal behaviour and associated risks.
It has also been proposed to make e-sim or data connectivity mandatory to help monitor the EV battery’s daily behavioural data.
CPOS has also recommended that there should be mandatory battery performance and timely recall. Further, users need to be updated in real time about the status of the batteries they are being swapped with and the risks associated with EVs.
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