Battery Voltage of ebike and EN15194 Standard

cages

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I believe this is the right forum to ask this question as there are a lot of ebike manufactures on the forum.
The EN15194 standard on ebikes is for systems using battery voltage up to 48 VDC.
Would a 48V ebike battery comply with the standard as the voltage when fully charged would be greater than 48Vs.
Just wandering if the voltage level stated in the standard is the maximum or the nominal voltage of the battery. Not really familiar with equipment standards so can not determine what is meant.

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NRG

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I understand it to be the nominal battery voltage as the manufacturers themselves state cell voltage using the nominal rating....
 

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I understand it to be the nominal battery voltage as the manufacturers themselves state cell voltage using the nominal rating....
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I would have thought so but there is no indication in the standard, also a 48V battery (nominal voltage) the maximum voltage will be different depending on the chemistry.
 

Daniel Vickery

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I've also been trying to figure this out.

NRG, do you have any more information on this? I read the specification and it doesn't say anything more than "48V".

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flecc

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I've also been trying to figure this out.

NRG, do you have any more information on this? I read the specification and it doesn't say anything more than "48V".

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NRG no longer visits this forum, but the answer is that it definitely is the nominal battery voltage, not any actual fully charged figure. This follows the same practice as the 250 watt motor rating in EN15194, that too being nominal with all e-bike motors exceeding it in various ways.
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