Improving Safety for Battery Electric Vehicles

Battery electric vehicles (BEV) are increasing in sales and use throughout the world. BEV safety requires special efforts such as BEV specific standards and BEV training for first responders for incidents. This policy brief develops policy recommendations to improve BEV safety as summarized in the table below. The goal is to make BEVs significantly safer than the existing vehicle fleet of BEV and conventional internal combustion vehicles.