Mahindra & Mahindra, Okinawa, Lucas TVS, GEM, Kinetic, Ashok Leyland, Exicom, Amara Raja Batteries and Exide batteries have come together to define standards in various parts of Electric Vehicle ecosystem.

The move is primarily aimed at commercial vehicles that will ply with swapable batteries.

“We do not want to commit the mistakes of mobile handset companies that did not standardise chargers extra when it would have made sense. We will continue to work towards setting up more common standards for the industry.” said Dr. Prabhjot Kaur, CBEEV, IIT Madras.

The standards are grouped under Lock Smart – Vehicle Battery Charger Cloud protocol or LS-VBCC they will act as a cornerstone for EVs.

Check out the PDF here: LS-VBCC PDF