As electric vehicles become more integrated into the nation’s transportation system, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has flagged three areas that need coordinated action.
In order to help U.S. industry tackle the practical questions that come with mass adoption, ANSI has released a report that proposes three new gaps for consideration:
- damaged EV battery triage, monitoring, storage, and transfer, addressed in the report’s Vehicle Systems chapter
- accessible and inclusive EV charging equipment and interfaces, addressed in the report’s Charging Infrastructure chapter
- public unattended Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) user experience, operations, and serviceability, addressed in the report’s general section
“As EV adoption grows, the standards questions are shifting from whether the technology works to how it performs in the real world, for every driver and at every charger,” said Christine Bernat, ANSI director of standards facilitation. “Damaged batteries, accessibility, and charger reliability are the kinds of issues that are easier to solve together and early, and we encourage more stakeholders to join ANSI in this work.”
The report, issued by the ANSI Electric Vehicles Standards Panel (EVSP), provides updates on standards, research, and conformity assessment activities against 30 previously identified gaps.
The report builds on the EVSP’s 2023 Roadmap of Standards and Codes for Electric Vehicles at Scale, developed with input from more than 130 organizations across federal agencies, national laboratories, standards developers, industry, and academia. The roadmap identified 37 standardization gaps across vehicle systems, charging infrastructure, grid integration, and cybersecurity. It was intended as a living document, updated as standards work advances, until the EVSP undertakes its next full roadmap in May, 2027.
