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This document is developed in accordance with the rules given in GB/T 1.1-2020 Directives for standardization—Part 1: Rules for the structure and drafting of standardizing documents.
This document is the Part 4 of GB/T 34015 Recovery of traction battery used in electric vehicle—Echelon use. The following parts of GB/T 34015 have been published:
——Part 1: Test of residual capacity;
——Part 2: Removing requirements;
——Part 3: Echelon using requirement;
——Part 4: Labels for echelon used battery products;
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. The issuing body of this document shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
This standard was proposed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China.
This document is under the jurisdiction of the National Technical Committee of Auto Standardization (SAC/TC 114).
Introduction
When the residual capacity of traction battery used in electric vehicle is reduced to 80 % of its nominal capacity, it can no longer meet the requirements of the electric vehicle. However, the traction battery scrapped from the electric vehicle still has favorable electrical performance because of its advanced manufacturing technology, and its residual capacity can still meet the requirements of energy storage facilities and low-power electrical appliances. Moreover, the traction battery pack consists of several modules or cells. Even if the battery pack cannot continue to be used due to the damage of individual modules or cells, other modules and cells in the battery still have a great potential for secondary use. In the process of recovery of used traction battery used in electric vehicle, the move of breaking used traction battery for material recovery will cause great waste of resources. Therefore, in the principle of maximizing resource utilization, it is necessary to conduct echelon use of used traction battery used in electric vehicle; moreover, its modules and cells can be combined and reused according to the actual market demand, creating considerable potential market and economic values.
Although the echelon use of used traction battery is of great significance, not all used traction batteries meet the requirements of echelon use. After a period of use, the traction batteries will have changes in electrical properties such as capacity, internal resistance, charge retention rate and consistency between battery cells. Besides, electric vehicles are no longer the object of echelon use, and their technical requirements will also change. Therefore, the critical technical problems of echelon use of used traction battery used in electric vehicle are to judge what kind of batteries meet the requirements of echelon use, what kind of specifications shall be met in the process of echelon use, and what kind of requirements shall be met by echelon used battery products. Since many technical problems shall be solved in the echelon use of traction battery used in electric vehicle, in which many related parties with different requirements for the use of this document are involved, GB/T 34015 Recovery of traction battery used in electric vehicle — Echelon use is to be compiled in six parts:
——Part 1: Test of residual capacity. The purpose is to judge the residual capacity of retired batteries and determine whether they have echelon use value.
——Part 2: Removing requirements. The purpose is to guide enterprises how to safely and efficiently remove batteries from electric vehicles.
——Part 3: Echelon using requirement. The purpose is to guide echelon use enterprises to judge the echelon use of retired batteries.
——Part 4: Labels for echelon used battery products. The purpose is to standardize the labels for echelon used battery products and protect consumers' right to know.
——Part 5: Design guide for echelon use. The purpose is to guide battery manufacturers how to improve the echelon use performance of new batteries, and reduce the cost of echelon use in the future while meeting the use requirements of electric vehicles.
——Part 6: Specifications for remaining life evaluation. The purpose is to determine the residual cycle life of retired batteries with high efficiency, no damage and low cost, so as to ensure that the echelon used battery products still have higher residual cycle life and safety.
GB/T 34015.4 is of great significance to the application of echelon used battery products of traction batteries used in electric vehicles. Used traction batteries used in electric vehicles are sold as Class I products again after echelon use, and labels to the products can not only provide convenience for traceability within enterprises, but also protect the right to know entitled by the customers of echelon used battery products. The standard and clear labels for echelon used battery products give users direct cognition, which facilitates the customers to choose products freely by observing the basic information and sources of products on the simple labels, and distinguishing the quality of products.
Recovery of traction battery used in electric vehicle—
Echelon use—Part 4: Labels for echelon used battery products
1 Scope
This document specifies the label composition, marking requirements, labeling position, labeling method and labeling requirements for echelon used battery products in recovery of traction batteries used in electric vehicles.
This document is applicable to labeling the echelon used battery products from retired traction batteries used in electric vehicles.
2 Normative references
The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
GB/T 19596 Terminology of electric vehicles
GB/T 25978-2018 Road vehicle —Plate and label
GB/T 26989 Automobile recovery—Terminology
GB/T 34014 Coding regulation for automotive traction battery
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in GB/T 19596, GB/T 26989 and GB/T 34014 and the following apply.
3.1
echelon use
application of the retired traction battery used in electric vehicle as a whole or through related processes such as disassembly, classification, testing, reorganization and assembly into related target fields including but not limited to base station standby power, energy storage and low-speed power in the form of battery packs, modules or cells
3.2
echelon used battery products
echelon used battery products from retired traction batteries used in electric vehicles, satisfying the standards of target application fields
3.3
mark for echelon used battery products
pattern used to show that the battery is a echelon used product
3.4
labels for echelon used battery products
combination of information consisting of marks, text, numbers, symbols, and other descriptive content, used to identify the echelon used battery products
4 Labeling requirements
4.1 Label composition
The labels for echelon used battery products shall at least contain the following items:
a) Marks for echelon used battery products as specified in 4.2;
b) Chinese names of the products;
c) Names or registered trademarks of the echelon use enterprises;
d) Production date of echelon used battery products, in the form of 4-digit year/2-digit month/2-digit date;
e) Specification/model of echelon used battery products;
f) Executive standard of echelon used battery products;
g) Codes of echelon used battery products conforming to GB/T 34014.
4.2 Marking requirements
4.2.1 General requirements
Marks for echelon used battery products shall be clear and easy to identify.
4.2.2 Mark pattern
The mark for echelon used battery product consists of a recycling symbol in equilateral triangle and battery mark, and the mark pattern shall conform to the provisions of Annex A.
4.2.3 Mark size
The mark size shall conform to the provisions of Annex A, which can be adjusted according to the size of the echelon used battery products, and the whole mark shall not be less than 5 mm in height. The mark shall be scaled up or down in the same proportion.
Foreword i
Introduction ii
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Labeling requirements
5 Labeling position
6 Labeling method
7 Labeling requirements
Annex A (Normative) Pattern and size of mark for echelon used battery products
Annex B (Informative) Example of the label for echelon used battery product
