An Analysis of Automotive Industry Standards for Electric Power Train Vehicles 2022-28-0394

Automotive Mission Plan of Government of India aspires to make Indian Automotive Industry world’s number one in engineering and manufacturing by 2026; whereas the Government on the other side is promoting the National Electric Mobility Mission Plan (NEMMP) to electrify the whole transportation system of India by 2030. To incentivize these plans, ARAI has been setting up the standardization structure called Automotive Industry Standards (AIS) in terms of vehicle construction, safety requirements, energy consumption, measurement of range, net power, Central Motor Vehicles Rules (CMVR) approval for power train and kit and approval of hybrid electric vehicle. The better the structure, the precise will be the design; and hence error-free would be the manufacturing. In the paper, the standards set by AIS will be critically analysed. The standards on which analysis made were AIS-038 which is related to safety and construction of Electric Vehicles (EVs), AIS 39 which provides standardization on electrical energy consumption measurement for EVs, AIS 40 which throws light on procedure of range measurement of EVs, AIS 41 which standardises measurement of net and 30 minute maximum power, AIS 49 that provides guidance on approval for electric power train vehicles, AIS -123 provides guidance on the approval of electric propulsion kit intended for conversion of vehicles for pure electric operation & AIS 102 that gives information on CMVR type approval for hybrid electric vehicles. These standards were compared with world’s EV standards of the similar nature. The research further presents analysis of this comparison with recommendation for each standard for practical application.