EN 13385:2025

Transportable gas cylinders - Battery vehicles and multiple-element gas containers (MEGCs) for compressed and liquefied gases (excluding acetylene) - Inspection at time of filling EN 13385:2025

Publication date:   Feb 17, 2026

Scope

This document specifies the minimum requirements for inspection at time of filling of battery vehicles and multiple-element gas containers (MEGCs) for compressed and liquefied gases.
The elements of battery vehicles and MEGCs covered by this document are:
— seamless steel or seamless aluminium alloy cylinders or tubes, and
— composite cylinders or tubes (hoop-wrapped or fully-wrapped)
with a water capacity up to 3000 l.
This document is not applicable to MEGCs using tanks as elements.
This document is not applicable to the automotive components of a battery trailer.
NOTE Acetylene battery-vehicles are covered by EN 13720 [1].

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