Advisory 1 of this Bus & Coach Safety Advisory Series was released in August 2023 and is intended to support incoming ADR’s 109/00 and 110/00 relating to zero emissions technology for heavy vehicles. This page provides website links to relevant regulations and standards, and downloadable MWord working templates that can be incorporated into existing heavy vehicle specification forms (systems) for use by manufacturers, bus operators and transport agencies.

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Overview of chapters

1. Componentry of battery and hydrogen zero emissions vehicles
2. Heavy vehicle regulations in Australia and ADR’s.
3. Recommendations for the adoption of United Nations regulations and website links to the latest regulations:

• UN R100 Rev. 3 – Uniform provisions concerning the approval of vehicles with regard to specific requirements for the electric power train.
• UN R10 Rev. 6 – Electromagnetic compatibility
• UN R134 – Uniform provisions concerning the approval of motor vehicles and their components with regard to the safety-related performance of hydrogen-fuelled vehicles (HFCV)
• EC 79/2009 – Uniform provisions concerning the approval of motor vehicles and their components with regard to the safety-related performance of hydrogen-fuelled vehicles (Note: as a base as R134 does not require all components subject to high pressure hydrogen to be tested and certified)
• UNR138 Rev. 1 – Uniform provisions concerning the approval of Quiet Road Transport Vehicles with regard to their reduced audibility (QRTV).

1. Review of other related or equivalent international standards and specifications.
2. Future global technical specification – Global Technical Regulation 20 on electric vehicle safety.

Specification Formats / Working Templates – Downloadable MWord documents

R100 Rev. 3 and ADR 109/00
REESS to R100 Rev.3 and ADR 109/00
EC R79/2009
R134 and ADR 110/00