US eases transport rules for portable lithium batteries, raising limits and cutting regulation

From ESS News The transition to battery power on the job site is seemingly inevitable, but in the US, hazardous material classifications were relatively strict for commercial-sized operations. For contractors actually hauling gear, the logistics themselves have been strangling adoption. When scaling up, portable power stations may have seen some unwittingly classified as hazardous materials transporters. A long-awaited regulatory update from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), part of the Department of Transport (DOT), is fixing a bottleneck with a 16-part rulemaking ...

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