What To Know About UL Certification For eBikes

There are roughly 1 million ebike firms on the market now — or, no less than, that’s the way it feels. Whatever the number is, it may be laborious to know how to choose quality ebikes at a good price and never find yourself shopping for a motorbike with insufficient high quality or too excessive of a value. Nicely, as security — and significantly the protection of batteries — has develop into a broader concern, one good thing about often-unfounded fears of battery fires has arisen: an increasing number of ebikes are getting UL licensed. The truth is, New York Metropolis has led the cost (no pun initially supposed) and now requires that each one ebikes bought in its jurisdiction be UL licensed, assembly the UL 2271 and UL 2849 requirements. To light up this matter for us, I lately spoke to David Duecker, CEO of Denago eBikes, about UL certification for ebikes and another security matter. He additionally informed me a bit concerning the fascinating founding of Denago eBikes. Take heed to the complete podcast right here:

I’ll additionally pick a couple of highlights right here for further emphasis and simple reference.

“So, the primary bucket is UL2271. That’s the one which focuses strictly and particularly on lithium-ion batteries which can be utilized in mild electrical autos, or LEVs, after which everybody is aware of lithium-ion batteries are used as a result of they’ve actually excessive power density and effectivity. So, the UL2271 covers security testing, mechanical testing, electrical testing, and environmental testing of the battery.” This consists of testing round points similar to “thermal runaway, brief circuits, overcharging; mechanical testing on the battery pack is crush influence, puncture resistance; electrical testing is on the capability voltage cycle life; after which environmental testing is like what we have been speaking about earlier than the podcast, a number of the excessive climate, a number of the excessive lows, excessive highs, the humidity. In order that’s the battery.” In different phrases, you may be assured an ebike battery that has been UL licensed can stand as much as virtually something.

“So then the second a part of this testing is named UL 2849. And that’s the one in case you google*, that’s the one that you simply get loads of hits on proper now as a result of persons are making an attempt to grasp that. In order that one’s designed particularly for the ebike, the whole system, not simply the battery. It focuses on the protection and efficiency of the complete electrical and digital parts of a motorbike. So, like, the electronics and electrical parts, it’s the battery, the charger, and another parts on the ebike. The environmental testing is how the complete bike performs in numerous environments — in water, mud, excessive temperatures. After which there’s {the electrical} testing — of how its performs below {the electrical} propulsion system. That features the voltage limits and electrical insulation.” (*I simply confirmed this — the articles I discovered have been simply specializing in UL 2849, not UL2271.)

For rather more about Denago, rising ebike gross sales, ebike UL certification, ebike charging, ebike laws, and extra, take heed to the complete podcast!

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