168. The representative of Canada provided an update on the latest activities of the IWG on EVE, on behalf of EVE leadership. She indicated that, since the March 2018 session of WP.29, two meetings of the EVE IWG took place, one on 27 and 28 March 2018 in Tokyo, Japan, and the second on 5 June 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland. She noted that the IWG continues to make progress on its three assigned areas of work.

169. She stated that the development of a draft GTR for determining the power of electrified vehicles had reached the start of the validation testing phases, and that several laboratories had volunteered to perform measurements over the coming months. The IWG was optimistic that it would have a proposal for a power determination UN GTR ready for approval by AC.3 in November 2019.

170. She continued by stating that that the final validation of a model to estimate the durability of EV batteries, developed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), had entered its final validation phase.

171. She added that the IWG continued to work closely with the IWG on WLTP to ensure that the work of the two groups was complementary and to avoid duplication of efforts.

172. She informed AC.3 delegates that the next meeting of the EVE IWG would be a two-day meeting in Ottawa, Canada, on 16-18 October 2018.

173. The representative of the Netherlands, Chair of GRPE, recalled his previous intervention on the work of the IWG on EVE on power system determination and repeated his question whether it should be delivered as an annex to UN GTR No. 15 or as a standalone UN GTR.