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Automotive Cable Safety and Performance Testing

UL Solutions provides compliance testing in accordance with global standards and specifications for automotive cables.

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The importance of reliable automotive cables

Properly functioning cables play a critical role in the safe, reliable operation of automobiles. Cable malfunctions can lead to short circuits in power cables, high latency in self-driving vehicle cameras and other safety hazards that may result in accidents and injuries. Enlisting UL Solutions to evaluate your cables in accordance with relevant industry specifications can help mitigate these safety risks.

Automotive cables must perform correctly without failure, even under severe exposure conditions, regardless of construction. Automotive cables must therefore meet stringent technical requirements to resist the extreme environmental conditions road vehicles encounter. UL Solutions offers testing services for various types of automotive cables used in the industry over a wide range of extreme temperatures (typically -40°C to 125°C or higher, up to 250°C).

In addition to thermal properties, UL Solutions can perform tests associated with environmental, flame propagation, mechanical, chemical resistance and electrical aspects. Our services cover wiring in electrical and electronic systems and power and high-speed data interconnections to help you compete in the global market. We can also support the required electrical transmission (signal integrity) performance testing for automotive data cables.

Automotive cable standards and specifications

UL Solutions can evaluate automotive cables per a number of industry standards and specifications. Expert testing can help confirm and verify product compliance with global or industry requirements, which can help reduce noncompliance risk throughout your supply chain.

StandardScopeMarket
FMVSS 302Flammability of Automotive MaterialsNorth American
ISO 19642 series -2 to -10Road Vehicles – Automotive Cables – dimensions and requirements for single-core cables and round, sheathed, screened or unscreened multi- or single-core cables, copper and aluminum conductors, 30 VAC/60 VDC, 600 VAC/900 VDC, 1,000 VAC/1,500 VDCGlobal
ISO 19642-11Road vehicles – Automotive cables – Part 11: Dimensions and requirements for coaxial RF cables with a specified analogue bandwidth up to 6 GHz (20 GHz)Global
ISO 19642-12Road vehicles – Automotive cables – Part 12: Dimensions and requirements for unscreened twisted pair RF cables with a specified analogue bandwidth up to 1 GHzGlobal
ISO 14572Road Vehicles – Round, Sheathed, 60 V and 600 V Screened and Unscreened Single- or Multi-Core Cables – Test Methods and Requirements for Basic- and High-Performance CablesGlobal
ISO 6722-1Road Vehicles – 60 V and 600 V Single-Core Cables – Part 1: Dimensions, Test Methods and Requirements for Copper Conductor CablesGlobal
ISO 6722-2Road Vehicles – 60 V and 600 V Single-Core Cables – Part 2: Dimensions, Test Methods and Requirements for Aluminum Conductor CablesGlobal
#Specification for IEEE 100BASE-T1 Definitions for Communication ChannelGlobal
#Specification for Channel and Components Requirements for 1000BASE-T1 Link Segment Type AGlobal
#Specification for Channel and Component Requirements for 1000BASE-T1 Link Segment Type A (STP)Global
SAE J1127Surface Vehicle Standard: Low Voltage Battery CableNorth American
SAE J1128Surface Vehicle Standard: Low Voltage Primary CableNorth American
SAE J1654Unshielded High Voltage Primary CableNorth American
SAE J1678Surface Vehicle Standard: Low Voltage Ultra-Thin Wall Primary CableNorth American
SAE J2840High Voltage Shielded and Jacketed CableNorth American
SAE J3117/1100BASE-T1 Un-Shielded Balanced Single Twisted Pair Ethernet CableNorth American
SAE J3117/21000BASE-T1 Un-Shielded and Shielded Balanced Single Twisted Pair Ethernet CableNorth American
SAE J3117/32.5/5/10GBASE-T1 Shielded Balanced Single Pair Ethernet CableNorth American
SAE USCAR30Performance Specification for Automotive Universal Serial Bus (USB) Connection SystemNorth American
UL 2276Outline of Investigation for Recreational Vehicle CableNorth American
UL 2726Outline of Investigation for Battery Lead WireNorth American
UL 2733Outline of Investigation for Surface Vehicle On-Board CableNorth American
UL 4127Outline of Investigation for Low Voltage Battery CableNorth American
UL 4740Cables specified in Standard for Lidar and Lidar Systems used in Vehicles North American

# Open Alliance (OA) Technical Committee TC9 has developed these specifications.

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