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ByOffice for Product Safety and Standardsmoss_owl_8c7fe8

Safety guidance for e-bike lithium-ion battery producers and distributors, including thermal runaway controls and product duties.

Adapted edition

Consumer product safety
Document type
Reference Guide
Format
DOCX
Pages
6
Language
English
Version
1.0
Updated
2026-09-16
Category
Safety & operations
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Description

Statutory guidance on safe e-bike lithium-ion batteries, product safety assessments, producer and distributor duties, and non-compliance.

Contents
  • About these guidelines
  • 1) Who is this for
  • 2) Products in scope of these guidelines
  • 3) Battery safety and thermal runaway
  • 4) Regulatory position on safe products under GPSR
  • Battery protective system
  • Battery design and physical construction
  • Information requirements
  • 5) Producer responsibilities
  • 6) Product safety assessment: demonstrating protections against thermal runaway (Producers)
  • 7) Distributor responsibilities
  • 8) Product safety assessment: demonstrating protections against thermal runaway (Distributors)
  • 9) Legal requirements
  • 10) Non-compliance with the regulatory requirements
  • 11) Further information
Source and licence
Statutory guidelines on lithium-ion battery safety for e-bikes

Office for Product Safety and Standards

Original source OGL-UK-3.0

AttributionOffice for Product Safety and Standards, ‘Statutory guidelines on lithium-ion battery safety for e-bikes’ (updated 12 December 2024), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.

Version history
  • v1.016/09/2026
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