DANX Carousel calls for standardised electric vehicle battery transport rules
19 / 03 / 2024
Source: DANX
Time-critical logistics firm DANX Carousel has called on European rulemakers to standardise regulations around the transport and storage of electric vehicle (EV) batteries.
The European Union (EU) last year created new battery transport regulations, but the logistics firm’s chief executive, Klaus Rud Sejling, has concerns that disparity between nations will add to cost and confusion around vehicle battery transportation.
Sejling praised many aspects of the new regulation, such as individual battery e-passports that offer transparency along the supply chain for all stakeholders, but questioned why discrepancies in interpretations and practices were allowed to remain between EU member states.
“The lack of clarity over which battery is waste and which is recyclable and how they should be kept doesn’t make things easier with something that, if it is not well controlled, is much more risky than an internal combustion engine (ICE).
“DANX Carousel has committed significant investment in researching best practice in this area and has great experience, but with the trend to store batteries closer to end users, regulatory standardisation can only help avoid further incidents.”
The company claimed to “dominate” EV battery logistics across the Nordics and said the number of hybrid and EV owners across Europe was on the rise.
DANX Carousel has moved more than 20,000 batteries in the Nordics alone, with each of them weighing an average of 500 kg.
It is currently adding battery storage facilities in Germany and France to accommodate expected increases in demand.
