Welcome New Associate Member

Dear NBDA Members,

My name is Ibrahim Jilani, and I’m the Consumer Technology Director at UL Solutions. I’ve been at ULS for close to 18 years and the son of an electric lighting manufacturer who has been ULS certified for over 40 years. UL Solutions global micromobility manager Dejan Gakovic, global retail & consumer products business manager Brian Kneibel, and I would like to help the community of e- Bike riders, makers, dealers, and retailers find better ways to look for UL Solutions Certified e-Bikes, e-Scooters, and light EV batteries.

Generally speaking, there is a public database UL Solutions has to find certified products, it’s called UL ProductIQ and accessible at www.ul.com/database. The way the certified products appear is based on the “Applicant“, e.g. the company who has applied to be ULS Certified. If that company chooses to only show their company name as the “Listee“, then that is what shows up. If the Applicant chooses to show the bicycle manufacturers who are receiving their electrical system as Listees, then multiple bicycle companies would show up in UL Solutions database. UL Listed means that UL Solutions has evaluated & tested representative samples of a product and determined that the product met the specific safety standard in full and eligible to bear the UL Mark (for Micromobility it is part of a holographic label). UL Recognized Components means that UL Solutions has evaluated the component intended for use in a complete system and eligible to bear the UL Mark.

UL 2849 Listed e-Bikes: https://productiq.ulprospector.com/en/search?term=qgns
UL 2272 Listed e-Mobility Devices: https://productiq.ulprospector.com/en/search?term=fkis
UL 2271 Listed Light EV Batteries: https://productiq.ulprospector.com/en/search?term=bbca
UL 2271 Recognized Batteries: https://productiq.ulprospector.com/en/search?term=bbca2

We encourage all UL Solutions Applicants to include their specific customers that will use their electrical system, so that more of the e-bike brands who use ULS 2849 certified systems will show up in the public database. At the end of the day, it’s the Applicant’s decision on who shows up as the Listee(s) on the UL Solutions database. For any UL Applicant seeking to add Multiple Listee, here is an overview of the process: https://www.ul.com/services/multiple-listing-service-ul-certified-products.

We request this group of dealers to discuss with your e-Bike brands that you would like to see more “Applicants” of ULS Certification to show “Alternate Listee” or “Multiple Listees” on the UL Solutions database. This way the NBDA members will have much more transparency on the models that are ULS Certified and associated to the e-Bike brands. Thank you very much for your support and please continue to ride safe, and ride ULS safety certified e-mobility.

Thank you,

Ibrahim Jilani, M.S.
Director, Consumer Technology UL Solutions