Technical Guidance Note 6

TOPIC: Motorised electric vehicles

ISSUE: 5

REVISION DATE: 6.11.98

PREVIOUS REVISION DATE: 27.1.98

BACKGROUND: EMC compliance for manufacturers of motorised electrical vehicles for use on the public roads.

PROBLEM: How do they achieve compliance with the EMC Directive?

GUIDELINES: The Department of Transport have advised that electric vehicles and other vehicles, which fall within the scope of the definition of "vehicle" as defined in the whole vehicle type approval framework Directive 92/53/EEC, will be able to be approved to 95/54/EC (the so-called automotive EMC Directive).

"vehicle" is defined in 92/53 as:

"any motor vehicle intended for use on the road, being complete or incomplete, having at least four wheels and a maximum design speed exceeding 25km/h, and its trailers, with the exception of vehicles which run on rails and of agricultural and forestry tractors and all mobile machinery."

Vehicles which do not fall within this definition should use 89/336, but using the requirements of 95/54/EC as the basis for claiming compliance and it will be necessary to use a TCF.

2/3 wheeled vehicles are covered by Directive 97/24 which is essentially the same as 95/54.

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