Six questions to give you an indicative condition rating for a retired traction battery — and what that rating means for how it must be packed and moved.
Signposting only — this is not an ADR classification. An actual ADR and UN determination can only be made against a specific, physically inspected pack by a competent person, and the applicable packing instruction depends on a severity judgement this tool cannot make. Nothing here constitutes a dangerous-goods classification, discharges any ADR obligation, or replaces the advice of a Dangerous Goods Safety Adviser. Verify all references against the current edition of ADR. These references apply to the UK and EU only — outside that scope, including in the United States, a different regime governs and none of this signposting applies.
This is the stripped-down version. The full assessment process handles the edge cases this one doesn't — weight thresholds, damage gradations, chemistry variations, and the routing decision that follows. That's the work I do on a contract basis. hello@ionworth.com