Battery knowledge · Vehicle and transport standards
RTCA DO-160
RTCA’s environmental test procedures for airborne equipment — temperature, altitude, humidity, vibration, shock, power input, lightning, electromagnetic emissions and susceptibility, flammability and more — published in Europe as EUROCAE ED-14. Aircraft batteries and their electronics, like any airborne equipment, are qualified against the test categories it defines.
- Also called
- EUROCAE ED-14, DO-160
Example
Vehicle and transport standards: an example situation
Shipping tests and vehicle battery approval tests address different uses; passing one does not automatically satisfy another.
Read RTCA DO-160 alongside Aircraft battery certification in this context. The approval route for batteries on aircraft. In the US, advisory circular AC 20-184A, reissued in 2026, gives an accepted way to show that installed rechargeable lithium batteries are safe, including thermal-runaway containment demonstrated with every cell in runaway. In Europe, EASA’s Special Condition SC E-19 sets requirements for electric and hybrid propulsion systems, including the propulsion battery and its management system.
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- UN Manual of Tests and Criteria, Revision 8
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe · 2023
Topic background · Dangerous-goods classification tests; subsection 38.3 concerns battery transport testing.
- Manual of Tests and Criteria, Revision 8, Amendment 1
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe · 2025
Topic background · Amendments to Revision 8, including changes to battery testing in subsection 38.3.