Electric Drive Vehicle Systems: Suggested Changes to Large Truck and Motorcoach Regulations and Inspection Procedures [Technology Brief]

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Electric drives
  • Commercial vehicles
  • Inspection
  • Electric vehicles
  • Hybrid vehicles
  • Fuel cell vehicles
  • Plug-in hybrid vehicles
  • Recommendations
  • Literature reviews
  • High voltage
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1502861
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• Abstract:
  Most commercial vehicles on the road today use ; low-voltage electrical systems (12/24 volts direct ; current). The current Federal Motor Carrier Safety ; Regulations (FMCSRs), North American Standard ; (NAS) inspection procedures, and out-of-service ; (OOS) criteria do not address the unique safety ; aspects of high voltages (greater than 60 volts direct ; current or greater than 30 volts alternating current) ; when present on a commercial vehicle. The purpose ; of this project was to identify suggested changes to ; the current FMCSRs and inspection procedures to ; address the unique safety requirements associated ; with high-voltage vehicle systems and to improve ; the overall safety of commercial vehicle operations. ; A summary of the recommended changes to the ; FMCSRs, NAS inspection procedures, and OOS ; criteria can be found in Table 1.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/214/dot_214_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 161.85 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:73fe7724773f00e14d64e494763acbf328db66a7b7382c2cbc0c22d99a1c27db