Recently, the international independent third-party testing, inspection, and certification organization TUV Rheinland Greater China (TUV Rheinland) successfully completed a high-voltage safety project for BEIJING-X7 PHEV, the first plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) produced by BAIC Motor Corporation, Ltd. (BAIC Motor). As the core platform of BAIC Group in the manufacture of its self-owned brand passenger vehicles, BAIC Motor has joined hands with TUV Rheinland, sharing a common idea of responsibility for consumer safety, to establish the electrical safety system for the first PHEV by BAIC Motor and jointly build vehicle-level and component-level safety test specifications and corresponding independent testing and verification capability.
By leveraging its experience in development and experimentation in high-voltage safety, TUV Rheinland interpreted the related international standards in detail and trained the BAIC Motor high-voltage safety developers, improving their operational capacity and safety awareness. Meanwhile, BAIC Motor displayed its top-down high attention paid to product safety as well as its persistent and dedicated spirit of workmanship. In the future, this move will bring a positive demonstration effect for those in the new energy vehicle (NEV) industry, accelerating the establishment of company standards for high-voltage electrical safety.
In recent years, China’s NEV industry has developed quickly due to the strong support of environmental requirements and related policies. However, with the rapid industrial of industry scale, NEV safety risks have gradually appeared, becoming one of the major factors restricting the industry’s development. To make NEVs safer and more reliable, TUV Rheinland Greater China Mobility has constructed a comprehensive set of high-voltage electrical safety solutions, such as establishing HV in-house specifications, risk assessment, a laboratory for high-voltage electrical safety, and post-collision electrical safety, etc., to help OEM comprehensively improve safety standards.
To complete the BAIC Motor project efficiently, TUV Rheinland integrated its expert resources in high-voltage electrical safety in Greater China. By means of seminars and teleconference, onsite support from testing centres, as well as high-voltage safety standard interpretation, high-voltage safety design and development process analysis, and high-voltage testing equipment customization, TUV Rheinland finally assisted BAIC Motor in resolving pain points in such aspects as specification establishment, high-voltage safety verification, high-voltage safety testing, safety strategy development, and high-voltage system matching.
