On May 1, 2022, the "General Technical Conditions for Multi-purpose Trucks" was officially implemented. As the first standardization standard document for the pickup truck industry in the mainland, the "General Technical Conditions for Multi-purpose Trucks" has made provisions on the parameters of pickup truck models through macro policy means, and the overall standard has been fully referred to the M1 class model standard, and 39 items and M1 classes are exactly the same in the standards and regulations, and only in a few places such as pollutant emissions, noise, fuel consumption, etc., have been adjusted to take care of the freight attributes of pickup trucks.
First of all, the "General Technical Conditions for Multi-purpose Trucks" stipulates the functional attribute positioning of the vehicle, and establishes the production and manufacturing specifications based on the positioning of IKEA and the use of passengers as an advanced requirement. For example, the standard states that "the top length of the cargo box should not exceed 35% of the length of the vehicle and not more than 1850mm", "the seat spacing shall not be less than 650mm, and the seat depth shall not be less than 400mm", which is to highlight the driving attributes of the pickup truck and weaken the truck attributes of the pickup truck. There is also "rated load quality of not more than 500kg" will also guide the development of pickup trucks to the household level, and eliminate the emergence of low-grade trucks such as micro-truck pickups.
The seat spacing and depth can be specified to avoid the appearance of pickup trucks for fake double-row seats, further ensuring the comfort and safety of the occupants in the car. In addition, the standard also defines the pickup truck from multiple angles such as comfort and smoothness, and puts forward constraints on safety standards such as frontal collision, side collision, and front-end protection device, which is consistent with the existing relevant indicators of passenger cars.
Secondly, the "General Technical Conditions for Multi-purpose Trucks" requires the structure of pickup truck boxes to make them different from ordinary trucks. The new standard stipulates that only the rear rail plate of the pickup truck should be openable and closed, and the rear rail plate should not exceed the width of the vehicle when it is in the form of side opening. This directly stipulates that the pickup truck container cannot be opened on three sides, which will form a significant difference from other light trucks and micro trucks, and will also prompt enterprises to develop the tail door technology of the cargo box that is more suitable for consumer car scenarios, and use the malleability and deformability of the tail door of the cargo box to enrich the multi-functional properties of the pickup truck.
In addition, in terms of traction and towing and power extraction, which has attracted much attention from consumers, the "General Technical Conditions for Multi-purpose Trucks" has also made clear provisions, combined with the new requirements for the declaration of light vehicle traction functions recently issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which will further highlight the significant characteristics of pickup trucks that distinguish them from passenger cars and trucks. The clarity of the towing standard will put forward higher requirements for the rigidity and torsional resistance level of the pickup truck, and it may not be able to meet the standard for models with a load-bearing body or a trapezoidal frame, which makes some micro-card pickup trucks or magic modified load-bearing body pickups excluded.
Finally, the formulation of the "General Technical Conditions for Multi-purpose Trucks" actually puts forward higher requirements for the research and development of intelligent safety attributes of pickup truck products, and pickup trucks must not only move closer to M1 cars at the R&D and manufacturing level, but also align with passenger cars at the level of intelligent safety attributes. Ramp assistance, blind spot detection, automatic driving, airbags, wireless charging, intelligent interconnection, artificial intelligence and other technological configurations will become an important basis for pickup trucks to be different from ordinary trucks, only with enough intelligent and safety configuration, in order to ensure that consumers have a car experience comparable to passenger cars in the dual-use environment.
In addition to standardizing the pickup truck from the perspective of production and research and development, the more important practical significance of the formulation of the "General Technical Conditions for Multi-purpose Trucks" is that from the macro level, including the lifting of the ban on pickup trucks and the adjustment of public security traffic management requirements related to pickup trucks, it provides a theoretical reference. Previously, due to the lack of pickup truck related standards in China, the management of pickup trucks in various places is quite different, the definition of pickup trucks is very vague, ordinary light trucks, multi-purpose trucks, light railing trucks have been used as the identity objects of pickup card management and policy description, resulting in pickup truck users traveling in various places is not convenient.
"General Technical Conditions for Multi-purpose Trucks" will provide a clear and feasible reference for the adjustment of pickup truck management policies around the world, what kind of car can enter the city, what kind of car is just to cater to the low-end truck of the policy, you can distinguish at a glance, the relevant departments around the world can use this as a basis to formulate a pickup truck into the city policy that is more in line with the actual needs, and continue to expand the scope of pickup truck traffic. Not only that, including some of the policies that pickup truck users are most concerned about, such as annual inspection and 15 years of mandatory scrapping, it is also expected to be loosened after the emergence of pickup standards, so that pickups can be truly liberated from many previous obstacles.
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