Electric vehicle supply equipment – NEMA update

Issue 31 – September 2011

The National Electrical Manufacturers' Association (NEMA) in the US recently visited Capitol Hill in support of electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) deployment incentives in the 2012 budget. The NEMA EVSE/Systems Section communicated the impact of electric vehicles (EVs) on infrastructure (and vice versa). NEMA organised the EVSE/Systems Section to:

Low emission cars under NREL’s microscope

Issue 31 – September 2011

Cars that plug into solar panels for electricity or run on hydrogen may sound like something found only on the pages of science fiction novels, but engineers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are driving these futuristic vehicles today.

STANDARD IN DEVELOPMENT

Transport of dangerous goods on land

Committee: P5433 A1
Project Manager: Bruce Taylor
Estimated Publication Date: December 2011
Comments: NZS 5433:2007 provides manufacturers, distributors, and transporters of dangerous goods with information such as packing instructions, labeling, segregation, and other requirements to ensure the safe transport of dangerous goods by road and rail. Work is underway to update the Standard with the latest changes published by the United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (UNRTDG), and changes introduced under the Land Transport Rule: Dangerous Goods 2005 (amended in 2010) and the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996. A revised draft of NZS 5433, in two parts, has been released with public comment closing on 26 September 2011. A committee of technical experts will review the public comments received on the draft, and decide on any final changes before the revised Standard is prepared for publication in late 2011.