Shipping Classification
Battery-powered vehicle or Battery-powered equipment
What this means
Battery-powered vehicle or Battery-powered equipment appears on the federal Hazardous Materials Table (49 CFR §172.101), the table that governs how a material must be classified, packaged, and labeled for transport.
Hazard class / division
Class 9
UN / NA identification number
UN3171
Packing group
N/A
Label codes
9
Packaging — exceptions
220
Packaging — non-bulk
220
Packaging — bulk
None
Passenger aircraft / rail limit
No limit
Cargo aircraft only limit
No limit
Vessel stowage location
A
Vessel stowage — other
None
Special provisions (§172.102)
134 — This entry applies only to vehicles powered by wet batteries, sodium batteries, lithium metal batteries or lithium ion batteries, and equipment powered by wet batteries or sodium batteries that are transported with these batteries installed. Lithium batteries installed in a cargo transport unit, designed only to provide power external to the transport unit must use the proper shipping name “Lithium batteries installed in cargo transport unit” found in the § 172.101 Hazardous Materials Table.
360 — Vehicles powered only by lithium batteries must be described using “UN3171, Battery-powered vehicle.” Lithium batteries installed in a cargo transport unit, designed only to provide power external to the transport unit, must be described using “UN3536, Lithium batteries installed in a cargo transport unit.”
Packaging citations reference sections of 49 CFR Part 173 not expanded here. View the full official table on eCFR.gov.
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Source: Hazardous Materials Table (49 CFR §172.101) and Special Provisions (49 CFR §172.102), current as retrieved from eCFR.gov. View official table.