Safety in electric cars has been a matter of priority among the different manufacturers of these vehicles, however, no country has arranged rules in this regard, limiting itself to validating the particular standards of each brand. But that has been so far because China has decided to take control over this technology, even It has attached to a regulation by which Tesla vehicles would be prohibited in their territory.
Tesla about to run out of market in China
Although it is not very common to happen, accidents occur where electric cars are fired despite the different protection systems available. More than 95 % of them have the internal batteries as a direct or indirect cause. When internal failures or physical damage suffer, they can enter a very dangerous process that is known as thermal escape.
It can be the spark that causes the fire of the car and creates a lot of smoke that is harmful to passengers. This process is that a cell of that component suffers an overheating such that it affects other cellscausing their chemical reactions to get out of control, causing an explosion and fire. But China has decided to take action on the matter to avoid these situations.
How China will take control of electric cars to avoid accidents
As of July 2026, the new safety regulations that will regulate the batteries of electric cars in its territory will enter into force. Although in reality it will not prohibit Tesla cars in China, they cannot be marketed until their batteries comply with these standards which are the strictest in the world and go in favor of avoiding fires in electric vehicles caused by them.
This new legislation will be very demanding, especially regarding that they should not exploit or fire under any circumstances. Especially in the internal thermal escape process, which is the condition of greatest risk in this car technology. It should be noted that the previous regulations in force since 2020 was much more benevolent in this regard.
Since it only demanded that the car have a system that alert, five minutes in advance, about the possibility of occurrence of an explosion or fire. With this new law, battery manufacturers must contemplate systems so that none of these types of accidents, explosion or fire may occur under any reason, Similarly, the smoke that is generated should not affect passengers.
But in addition, the new regulation of China contemplates evidence and essays that are more demanding, such as that These components must resist more than 300 loading and download cycles and that, in case of subsequent short circuits, they have no risk of explosion or fire. They must also be resistant to impacts suffered by the bottom of the car. Therefore, Tesla must modify your battery designs.
What the battery manufacturers of the Asian giant regarding these standards say
China’s battery manufacturers such as Catl and Svolt Energy (the same of the mysterious saber battery) have not caught these new demands, since for approximately two years they had introduced these improvements in their products so they can say that all their customers meet them. Only some brands like Tesla They must introduce these variants in their products.
In short, China has decided to take control of safety in electric cars regarding its batteries (although there is already an invention that can be the substitute for lithium technology), establishing very strict standards in their tests. Now it will be Tesla who adapts to these standards if he wants to continue selling cars in China.
