{"id":503819,"date":"2022-07-07T10:10:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T04:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=503819"},"modified":"2022-07-07T11:13:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T05:43:31","slug":"ev-fires-govt-sets-up-panel-to-suggest-certification-testing-sops-for-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ev-fires-govt-sets-up-panel-to-suggest-certification-testing-sops-for-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"EV fires: Govt sets up panel to suggest certification, testing SOPs for batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid increasing instances of fires in electric vehicles (EVs) being reported from parts of the country, the government has stepped in with a plan to formulate procedures on battery certification and quality control. The move is a bid to deter such incidents from reoccurring, which could put off potential EV buyers. The Centre has formed a panel of experts that has representations from the Visakhapatnam-based Naval Science &amp; Technological Laboratory; the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras; the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru; and an expert of advanced chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe committee will suggest ways to ensure the right quality of the product. They have to come up with a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid increasing instances of fires in electric vehicles (EVs) being reported from parts of the country, the government has stepped in with a plan to formulate procedures on battery certification and quality control. The move is a bid to deter such incidents from reoccurring, which could put off potential EV buyers. The Centre has formed a panel of experts that has representations from the Visakhapatnam-based Naval Science &amp; Technological Laboratory; the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras; the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru; and an expert of advanced chemistry. \u201cThe committee will suggest ways to ensure the right quality of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}