Standards Development

Scope

This international standard specifies the general safety requirements, electrical safety, functional safety, mechanical safety, reliability, test conditions and test methods, marking and description of Personal e-Transporters.

This standard is applicable to Personal e-Transporters which are used on the road or in the public space of electrically powered transport devices (i.e. no human (propulsion) power input) and where the speed control and/or the steering control is electrical/electronical, including self-balancing vehicles, e-scooters, etc.

Purpose

This International Standard proposal has been developed to cope with the rapidly evolving personnel e-transporters. The global market sizes and applications are expected to grow significantly. However, due to the appearance of personnel e-transporters in public spaces and roads, some products can reach speeds of 25 km/h or even higher. In order to protect safety for persons and public facilities, besides basic safety requirements, comprehensive safety requirements and test methods such as riding safety for people and road signs for etransporters shall also be considered. Based on the current situation, this international standard provides comprehensive safety requirements and corresponding test methods for personnel e-transporters, which is convenient for manufacturers and test departments to use. This international standard is not a horizonal standard and it is a safety standard.