Guidance

Covered car parks: fire safety guidance for electric vehicles

Interim guidance about parking or charging electric vehicles (EVs), and the installation of electric vehicle chargepoints, in covered car parks.

From:
Office for Zero Emission Vehicles
Published
11 July 2023
Last updated
8 February 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Covered car parks: fire safety guidance for electric vehicles

Ref: T0194

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Details

This guidance is intended for car park operators, designers, risk assessors and owners of covered car parks.

It outlines fire safety considerations and measures to take when:

  • retrofitting existing covered car parks for the provision of electric vehicles (EVs) and electric vehicle chargepoints (EVCPs)
  • designing new covered car parks for the provision of EVs and EVCPs

The guidance has been drafted in consultation with fire safety groups, car park operators and the chargepoint industry.

It has ‘interim status’, as it is based on currently available research and evidence surrounding EV fires, which will continue to develop. This means it is subject to change should new evidence emerge that significantly impacts appropriate mitigation measures.

This guidance does not replace existing safety regulations or the need to comply with them.

Published 11 July 2023
Last updated 8 February 2024 + show all updates

  1. Section 6.1: Select appropriate EVCP has been updated. Footnote 69 has been removed due to a formatting error.

  2. First published.