Ahead of the September-October First Draft Meetings in Redondo Beach California, we sort through the proposals related to electric vehicle safety and sustainability.
Public Input Report (546 pages)
From our perspective the omissions are probably more interesting than the inclusions:
- No discussion of maintenance bays servicing high-voltage traction batteries.
- No discussion of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) installations on campuses; or off-campus housing with merchant utility services.
- No discussion of shared charging yards used jointly by universities and municipal transit agencies.
- No discussion of fleet maintenance worker clearances around energized traction systems.
We are spread pretty thin and Mike’s reassignment by IEEE to CMP-3 limits the time for getting topics like these discussed.
We shall see the results of the First Draft meetings. If Standards Michigan – or the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee were looking ahead we might consider proposals addressing:
- Electrical design guidance for large educational fleet charging depots. (An authoritative title pulling together concepts from other standards catalogs)
- Coordination between Article 625 and school bus maintenance facilities.
- Service disconnecting and emergency shutdown arrangements for campus charging yards.
- Arc-flash and maintenance access requirements unique to fleet charging equipment.
- Load-management systems serving university transportation departments.
- Cross-references to NFPA 70B for maintenance of campus EV charging infrastructure.
- Guidance for campuses that operate both transit buses and public charging facilities.
Even if it means submitting proposals to the ICC, ASHRAE, SAE or other standards development organizations.
