This International Standard specifies the procedures for measuring the road performance of purely electrically propelled passenger cars and commercial vehicles of a maximum authorized total mass of 3 500 kg *).
The road performance comprises road operating characteristics such as speed, acceleration and hill climbing ability.
*) These vehicles comply with the vehicle categories M1 and N1 according to the Consolidated Resolution on the Construction of Vehicles (R.E.3) of UN/ECE, and according to 70/156/ EEC, and with three and four wheel motor vehicles as defined in the Directives 92/53/EEC and 92/62/EEC.