Electric vehicles represent relatively new and rapidly growing technology, which has strong support in European institutions and the automotive industry. Support is reflected in the increasing presence of electric vehicles on roads, which is still negligible compared to conventional vehicles with internal combustion engines. Nevertheless, the use of electric vehicles must be planned, organized, implemented and controlled. Safety is one of the basic human goods and the new technology represented by electric vehicles can in real use, jeopardize driver safety and other road users, which is unacceptable. Each vehicle must be designed and constructed in such a way that it is not the cause of a traffic accident, and if an accident occurs, it must protect as much as possible all participants in the accident. Factors affecting the safety of vehicles must be identified and ultimately regulated through the approval process. In this final thesis, by means of collecting, studying, analysing and synthesizing numerous written sources, the factors that influence the safety of vehicles with special emphasis on electric vehicles are shown. The vehicle safety regulation changes very rapidly and includes specific requirements related to the safety of electric vehicles. The safe use of an electric vehicle is essentially different from the safe use of vehicles with an internal combustion engine, only in the safe use of batteries. The safety of batteries is thus a fundamental issue of the safe use of electric vehicles, which is focused on professionals and regulations.
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