EU TAKES MAJOR STEP FORWARD TOWARDS HARMONIZING ELECTRIC VEHICLE TECHNICAL RULES
June 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOR growing markets such as electric cars, keeping regulatory standards simple can make or break a new technology. It can also give manufacturers a head start in the race to dominate a new market, if they are located in countries where rules are relatively straightforward and similar to those in other jurisdictions.
As a result, the proposal made today by the European Commission matters. The executive of the European Union (EU) has formally proposed that the EU adopts the global technical standard as agreed in 1997 by the United Nations Economic ...
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