Industry leaders say there needs to be strict guidelines for development and testing of EVs

According to automotive industry leaders, development and testing of electric vehicles need to follow strict protocols and companies must not rush to the market in order to avoid incidents of vehicles catching fire. With EVs (electric vehicles) still evolving, the manufacturers are in the process of learning, and even the testing agencies are yet to figure out exactly what needs to be tested to ensure that there are no electric vehicle fires, said auto industry veteran and former Managing Director of M& M, Pawan Goenka.

“If we go back 15-20 years back, we had seen such kind of things with internal combustion engine cars as well… because we were not aware at that time as what needs to be done,” Goenka, now the Chairman, Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe), noted.