What is battery safety testing?
Battery safety testing ensures the safety and reliability of the batteries used in a growing range of applications such as transportation, renewable energy, grid storage, grid balancing, backup applications and uninterruptible power supplies (UPS). Also the safety and reliability of electric cars, rail and marine applications and aerospace transportation depends on the quality of its batteries.
Why is battery safety testing important?
TÜV SÜD is your trusted battery testing expert. Our holistic approach and commitment to safety will optimise the reliability of your battery and other energy storage devices products. We are known as a neutral and independent third-party technical service provider, with a focus on delivering value to stakeholders rather than shareholders.
Through our expanding network of laboratories throughout North America, Germany, China, Korea, Japan and Singapore, we are ready to serve the needs of customers. This global testing network provides the full range of testing services and validation planning. Out interdisciplinary expertise will add value to your product development and you can also rely on our global network of experts for international market access and in-country experience.
TÜV SÜD has cell and pack channels that can perform testing of hybrid and electric car batteries, modules and cells.
Verify how long your battery lasts and demonstrate the quality of the product to customers. Our tests include cycle life testing, battery environmental cycle testing and battery calendar life testing.
Demonstrate the efficiency of your batteries. Our experts can customise testing programmes to suit specific customer requirements such as performance testing under various climatic conditions.
A dynamic impact test simulates a real vehicle accident to determine the true safety performance of the battery when the car body is deformed. TÜV SÜD can perform dynamic impact tests for electric vehicle batteries and provide advice on the optimum test design. The tests are conducted at our crash test facility, which utilises impactors with variable mass and geometry.
TÜV SÜD formulated and issued the standard PPP 59034A:2014 for RESS (Renewable energy storage systems) ahead of international standardisation organisations aimed at helping customers bridge gaps in current RESS standards.