Friday, March 12, 2010

Underwriters Laboratories Assists Better Place with Safety Compliance Needed to Bring Highly Visible Electric Taxi Project to Japan

Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a global leader in product safety testing and certification services, worked with Better Place, the leading electric vehicle services provider, to address the necessary safety requirements needed to help the company bring the world's first electric taxis with switchable batteries to Japan.

By leveraging its existing knowledge and presence in the local market, UL helped the taxi project's battery supplier, A123 Systems, prove that the switchable Nanophosphate(TM) lithium-ion batteries, proposed for this project, comply with the safety requirements needed for Better Place's battery switch stations. UL's knowledgeable, professional support resulted in electrolyte and other battery classifications.

http://www.ulitzer.com/node/1315974

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