Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards - Minimum Sound Requirements for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles (US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Regulation) (NHTSA) (2018 Edition‪)‬

The Law Library presents the complete text of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards - Minimum Sound Requirements for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles (US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Regulation) (NHTSA) (2018 Edition).
Updated as of May 29, 2018

To reduce the risk of pedestrian crashes, especially for the blind and visually-impaired, and to satisfy the mandate in the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act (PSEA) of 2010 this final rule establishes a new Federal motor vehicle safety standard (FMVSS) setting minimum sound requirements for hybrid and electric vehicles. This new standard requires hybrid and electric passenger cars, light trucks and vans (LTVs), and low speed vehicles (LSVs) to produce sounds meeting the requirements of this standard. This final rule applies to electric vehicles (EVs) and to those hybrid vehicles (HVs) that are capable of propulsion in any forward or reverse gear without the vehicle's internal combustion engine (ICE) operating. This standard will help to ensure that blind, visually impaired, and other pedestrians are able to detect and recognize nearby hybrid and electric vehicles, as required by the PSEA.

This ebook contains:
- The complete text of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards - Minimum Sound Requirements for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles (US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Regulation) (NHTSA) (2018 Edition)
- A dynamic table of content linking to each section
- A table of contents in introduction presenting a general overview of the structure