According to the State Council's National Electric bicycle safety hidden danger full chain rectification action deployment, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with the Ministry of Public Security, emergency management department, the General Administration of market supervision, the State Fire Rescue Bureau, carry out the revision work of mandatory national standard "safety technical specification for electric bicycles" (GB 17761-2018, hereinafter referred to as "technical specification").

China is a big country in the production and sales of electric bicycles, with a social population of over 0.35 billion. In 2023, enterprises above the scale produced 42.28 million electric bicycles in total. At present, electric bicycle has become an important means of transportation for people's daily travel. However, in many years of development, the electric bicycle industry has also seen that the intrinsic safety level of products is not high, and the phenomenon of illegal tampering is common, problems such as insufficient quality assurance ability of enterprises and unreasonable industrial structure, especially the frequent fire accidents of electric bicycles in recent years, which seriously threaten the safety of people's lives and property. It is urgent to adopt the revision of "Technical Specifications, improve the intrinsic safety level of products, protect the safety of people's lives and property, and promote the orderly development of industry norms.

In the process of this revision, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with relevant departments, has always adhered to the people-centered development thought, in accordance with "it is conducive to preventing fire accidents, reducing hidden dangers of traffic safety, it is conducive to meeting the daily travel needs of consumers and promoting the high-quality development of the industry", and organizing relevant research institutions, testing institutions, production enterprises, institutions of higher learning, industry organizations, consumer organizations, representatives from grass-roots management departments and other aspects set up a standard revision expert group to repeatedly revise and polish the current standard text on the basis of a large number of experimental verification, on-site investigation and statistical analysis, the technical specification for safety of electric bicycles (draft for comments) was formed.

Compared with the current standard, this draft mainly has the following improvements and improvements:

one is to improve the fireproof and flame retardant performance. The flame retardant requirements and test methods of non-metallic materials used in electric bicycles are improved, and the proportion of plastic parts is limited, so as to reduce fire risk and improve fire safety performance. At the same time, it is required that the whole vehicle code should adopt high temperature resistant permanent identification, it is convenient to strengthen the supervision of the whole chain and the investigation and handling of fire accident traceability.

The third is to meet the daily travel needs of consumers. Considering that in recent years, consumers' travel radius has gradually expanded and lead Storage Battery due to the low energy density, the weight limit of the whole vehicle of the lead battery model is relaxed from 55kg to 63kg to improve the practicability of the product; The production enterprise is allowed to decide whether to install the pedal riding device according to the design needs of the model, it is conducive to saving production costs and providing consumers with more car models.

The fourth is to prevent illegal modification. Improve tamper-proof requirements from three aspects: battery pack, controller, and speed governor, ensure mutual recognition and coordination among chargers, batteries, and controllers, and vigorously promote "one car, one pool, one charge, one yard", do not leave space for illegal tampering.

The fifth is to promote the high-quality development of the industry. Increase the requirements for the production equipment and testing capability of electric bicycle enterprises, and promote enterprises to improve the quality assurance capability and product consistency; Vehicles are required to have Beidou positioning and dynamic safety monitoring functions, improve product informatization level and security risk prevention capability.

After this public consultation, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will revise and improve the standard text according to the opinions received, and accelerate the work of review and approval according to the procedures, and strive to release it as soon as possible.