CHAPTER 13 Industrial Standards and Organizations In this chapter, we will review some of the major industry organizations, governmental organizations, trade groups, and standards setting organizations for lithium-ion batteries. This will include both standard setting organizations such as the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as well as industry groups and coalitions focused on helping the commercialization of the automotive and industrial lithium-ion battery.
The role of industry organizations is particularly important as the lithium-ion battery industry is, at least as it relates to automotive and industrial applications, still relatively young. In a young industry where the technology is still developing trade groups and industry organiza- tions are essential as they have the ability to bring together the different areas of the value chain in one group, organization, or place. Often these are groups that may not otherwise have been able to easily interact.
These may include governmental organizations, research and development groups, component and material suppliers, assembly and testing equipment manufacturers, cell manufacturers, system integrators, and OEMs. Modern day organizations such as the United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC), the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA), and the National Alliance for Advanced Battery Technology (NAATBatt) are actually successors to one of the earliest electric vehicle (EV) industry trade groups called the Electric Vehicle Asso- ciation of America (EVAA) which was formed in 1909 and lasted for only seven years.
EVAA members included electric power generating companies, vehicle manufacturers, and energy storage battery makers. Interestingly enough, if we compare the goals of some of these key organizations to the EVAA we find that there are some striking simi- larities ( Table 1 ). All three of these organizations have similar goals of working to bring together different elements of the battery market for the purpose of speeding the adoption of EVs in the market place.
The other purpose, sometimes not clearly defined in all of them, is to encourage industry research and development activities in support of the goal of speeding up the technology-development rate in order to speed consumer adoption of these technologies. Industry and government organizations also generate standards, which are important in emerging industries such as this because as has been said elsewhere “nature abhors a The Handbook of Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Design. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-801456-1.00013-0 Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 153