What To Know About UL Certification For eBikes

There are roughly 1 million ebike firms on the market now — or, a minimum of, that’s the way it feels. Regardless of the quantity is, it may be exhausting to know how to decide on high quality ebikes at a superb worth and never find yourself shopping for a motorbike with insufficient high quality or too excessive of a worth. Properly, as security — and notably the protection of batteries — has develop into a broader concern, one advantage of often-unfounded fears of battery fires has arisen: increasingly more ebikes are getting UL licensed. In reality, New York Metropolis has led the cost (no pun initially supposed) and now requires that every one ebikes bought in its jurisdiction be UL licensed, assembly the UL 2271 and UL 2849 requirements. To light up this subject for us, I lately spoke to David Duecker, CEO of Denago eBikes, about UL certification for ebikes and another security matter. He additionally advised me a bit in regards to the attention-grabbing founding of Denago eBikes. Hearken to the total podcast right here:

I’ll additionally select a number of highlights right here for additional emphasis and simple reference.

“So, the primary bucket is UL2271. That’s the one which focuses strictly and particularly on lithium-ion batteries which are utilized in gentle 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 contains testing round points akin 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 had 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 will 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 known as UL 2849. And that’s the one when you google*, that’s the one that you simply get a whole lot of hits on proper now as a result of individuals are attempting to know 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 your entire electrical and digital elements of a motorbike. So, like, the electronics and electrical elements, it’s the battery, the charger, and some other elements on the ebike. The environmental testing is how your entire bike performs in numerous environments — in water, mud, excessive temperatures. After which there’s {the electrical} testing — of how its performs underneath {the electrical} propulsion system. That features the voltage limits and electrical insulation.” (*I simply confirmed this — the articles I discovered had been simply specializing in UL 2849, not UL2271.)

For far more about Denago, rising ebike gross sales, ebike UL certification, ebike charging, ebike laws, and extra, hearken to the total podcast!

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