California Code of Regulations › Title 13 - Motor Vehicles › Division 3 - Air Resources Board › Chapter 1 - Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Devices › Article 2 - Approval of Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Devices (New Vehicles) › Section 1962.6 - Battery Labeling Requirements

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Applicability. This section shall apply
				  to 2026 and subsequent model year zero-emission vehicles, plug-in hybrid
				  electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, and 48-volt hybrid electric
				  vehicles certified for sale in California. For the purposes of this section,
				  "traction battery" means any electrical energy storage device consisting of any
				  number of individual battery modules or cells that is used to supply power to
				  propel the vehicle.
(b) Battery
				  Label Requirement. All applicable vehicles shall be equipped with permanent
				  labels in accordance with the requirements of this section. The manufacturer
				  may include this information on either a separate label or an existing label in
				  the required location.
(1) Required Label
				  Information. The label shall contain the following information:
(A) Chemistry identifier designating the
				  battery chemistry, cathode type, anode type, manufacturer, and date of
				  manufacture in accordance with SAE, International (SAE) J2984 "Chemical
				  Identification of Transportation Batteries for Recycling" SEP 2021, (SAE
				  J2984), incorporated by reference. For chemistries not included in SAE J2984,
				  the manufacturer shall request, as part of their certification application
				  under subsection (d)(1) of this section and subsection (i) of California Code
				  of Regulations (CCR), title 13, section
				  1962.4, Executive Officer approval
				  of an alternative identifier. The Executive Officer shall approve the alternate
				  identifier as part of certification upon determining the proposed identifier is
				  consistent with SAE J2984 or with terminology generally used for the component
				  in the battery manufacturing industry and distinguishes the new chemistry from
				  other chemistries already defined with identifiers;
(B) The minimum voltage of the battery pack,
				  Vmin0, as defined in the Idaho National Laboratory
				  "INL/EXT-15-34184 Battery Test Manual for Electric Vehicles," Revision 3, June
				  2015, incorporated by reference, and the corresponding minimum battery cell
				  voltage, Vmin0,cell when the battery pack is at
				  Vmin0;
(C)
				  Rated capacity of the unit as measured under life cycle testing standard SAE
				  J2288 "Life Cycle Testing of Electric Vehicle Battery Modules", November 2020
				  (SAE J2288), incorporated by reference; and
(D) A digital identifier, linked to a data
				  repository website as specified in subsection (c). In lieu of a unique digital
				  identifier or entry in the data repository website for each separate date of
				  manufacture included on the label, a manufacturer may utilize a common digital
				  identifier, linked to a common data repository website, covering a period of
				  time representing multiple dates of manufacture, provided that the rest of the
				  label information required by subsection (b)(1) is consistent across the
				  multiple dates of manufacture and that the data repository website entry
				  includes the applicable range of manufacture dates.