Draft UN Regulation concerning the approval of Quiet Road Transport Vehicles
Document GRB-61-02
26 January 2015

Draft proposal for minimum sound requirements (via an audible alerting signal) for low noise vehicles (e.g., electric vehicles).

Status: Superseded
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11. | Quiet road transport vehicles

24. The experts from France and Germany, co-chairing IWG QRTV for a UN Regulation, briefed GRB on the progress in preparing a draft UN Regulation on QRTV under the 1958 Agreement and on its key aspects (GRB-61-02, GRB-61-10). GRB noted that a draft Regulation would be officially submitted to the next session of GRB in September 2015, as foreseen by the IWG mandate. The Chair invited GRB experts to provide IWG with their comments on a draft QRTV regulation as soon as possible and/or to take part in the work of IWG.

25. GRB confirmed that, for the time being, a new QRTV Regulation would cover electric and hybrid electric vehicles of categories M and N only. GRB agreed that stationary noise and the pause-switch function would be optional in stage 1. GRB also agreed that a maximum AVAS sound level should be introduced into a QRTV Regulation, with a view to protecting environment. The expert of WBU concurred with this view.

8. | Any other business

All changes made during this meeting are shown in documents REG58-QRTV-02-02 & …02-03 with tracked changes. A new and clean document (REG58-QRTV-03-01) will be consolidated from those two documents as the working basis for the 3rd meeting.

Related and Previous Documents
REG58-QRTV-02-02
REG58-QRTV-05-02
Relates to UN R138 |