How to avoid about 200 million related safety accidents in electric bicycles?

“Electric bicycles are charged at night for causing fires.” “E-bikes speeding and hitting pedestrians.” ... Electric bicycles are frequently used for safe trips by residents.

How to make electric bike safe?

Recently, two new initiatives on electric bicycles have raised concerns:

The State Council's safety committee office has decided to carry out comprehensive fire safety management of electric bicycles since May of this year . At the same time, it will focus on rectifying problems in the product quality, maintenance and modification, and use management of electric bicycles.

The latest national standards for electric bicycles have been issued. The new standard has determined that the maximum design speed of electric bicycles does not exceed 25 kilometers per hour , and the entire vehicle quality ( including batteries ) does not exceed 55 kg and many Other mandatory standards.

In this regard, experts pointed out that the introduction and implementation of this series of measures will help change the current practice in the area of ​​electric bicycles in excess of the standard, charging lines, and other "forwards" approach, making electric bicycles convenient for people.

Traffic accidents and fire accidents increase year by year

Today, electric bicycles have become a common means of transportation for residents on short trips. According to the data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China is the world’s largest producer and seller of electric bicycles. Currently, the total electric vehicle ownership of electric bicycles is about 200 million vehicles, and the annual output is more than 30 million. However, the rapid development of electric bicycles has always been accompanied by problems such as “difficult management” and “safety accidents”.

1 Traffic Safety Accidents Occur

According to statistics, from 2013 to 2017, the country's total electric bicycle accident casualties caused by road traffic accidents 56200 took place, resulting in the death of 8431 people, injured 6.35 million in direct property loss of 111 million yuan; the number of accidents increased year by year , an average annual increase of 8.6% .

2 Frequent fires and increasing year by year

Emergency Management Department data show that from 2013 to 2017, the country received a report that a fire caused by an electric bicycle more than 10,000 cases, an increase of 33.3% over the previous 5 years; since 2013, due to national electric bicycle 233 fire deaths, which triggered larger than the dead man fires 34, the death of 142 people.

Eliminating electric bicycles from entering homes

For the case of electric bicycles fire-prone, recently, the Office of the State Security Committee decided to organize bike comprehensive management of fire safety in the country, and concentration and control from June 2018 to the end of the year. This also became an important task in fire safety after the establishment of the Emergency Management Department.

Specifically, the relevant departments will comprehensively investigate and rectify the problems existing in the quality, maintenance, and use management of electric bicycles, including the production of electric bicycles, batteries, chargers and other accessories that do not comply with standards or reduce standards; privately refitting and disassembling the original plant Accessories, unauthorized removal of speed limiters and other key components, and private replacement of high-power batteries; electric bicycles parked in the first floor of the building hall, stairwells, shared walkways and basement semi-basement and other indoor public areas and so on.

Eliminating electric bicycles from entering the building into the home is the key to safety improvement. However, many electricians who don't go into the home to park their electric bicycles need to be charged. Many residents also have doubts.

In response, the relevant person in charge of the Emergency Management Department introduced that in the course of this comprehensive treatment, special emphasis was placed on promoting the construction of a batch of centralized parking places and charging facilities. At the same time, new residential quarters are encouraged to set up centralized parking places and intelligent charging control facilities with functions such as regular charging, automatic power off, and fault alarms; the installation of electrical fire monitoring and visual monitoring systems will be promoted, and daily inspections will be strengthened.

Mandatory national security

To increase the safety factor of electric bicycles, the "new national standard" has been placed more hope. Revised by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology "electric bicycle safety technical specifications" mandatory national standards, will be implemented next year April 15, have applied to replace the current standard for nearly 20 years.

The new standard requires that in the future electric bicycles must have pedaling capability, a maximum design speed of no more than 25 kilometers per hour , a total vehicle mass ( with batteries ) of no more than 55 kilograms , a Motor power of no more than 400 watts, and a nominal battery voltage of no more than 48 volts, in addition to increased anti-tamper, fire, flame retardant, charger protection and other technical requirements.

Mandatory standards are coming, and it is expected to increase the safety of electric bicycles from the source.

What should consumers do if they have used electric bicycles that do not meet the new standards?

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology emphasizes that this will be formulated by local governments in a concrete manner, and will be gradually digested within a few years through such methods as natural scrapping, trade-in replacement, discounted price repurchase, scrapped subsidies, and incorporation into motor vehicle management.

This article is reproduced from: Xinhuanet.com.