SHENZHEN, ChinaMay 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Recently, internationally recognized testing, inspection, and certification organizationSGS and its subsidiaryCertX officially awarded Shenzhen BYD Lithium Battery Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as BYD Battery) theISO/SAE 21434 Automotive Cybersecurity Management System Certification and Process Certificate. This marks the firstSAS-accreditedISO/SAE 21434 Automotive Cybersecurity Process Certificate in China issued bySGS and its subsidiaryCertX, a milestone achievement. This certification not only solidifies BYD Battery’s foundation for enhancing global market competitiveness but also leads the industry to a new level of automotive safety management.
Deng Linwang, Factory Manager of BYD Battery’s Second Division BMS Factory; Zhang Shuya, Director of Public Functions RMC; and Zhou Hanming, Regional Head of SGS Management and Assurance, attended the certification ceremony.
BYD Battery Receives SGS and its Subsidiary CertX’s First SAS-Accredited ISO/SAE 21434 Certificate in China
BYD Battery Second DivisionBMS Factory Manager Deng Linwang stated: New energy vehicles have entered a new stage of intelligent development, with the pace of global industry expansion accelerating. Whether focusing on the domestic market or expanding overseas, the importance of automotive cybersecurity and vehicle safety is increasingly prominent. To further support the global layout of the battery business, we have partnered with SGS, which has a service network spanning the globe. In the future, BYD Battery will actively embrace the wave of automotive intelligence while continuously strengthening safety protection barriers, ensuring users enjoy the convenience of smart travel with solid and reliable safety guarantees.
SGS Management and Assurance Regional Head Zhou Hanming stated: Obtaining the ISO/SAE 21434 certificate marks a new starting point for BYD Battery to advance to a higher level of automotive safety management. This achievement not only belongs to BYD Battery but also sets a benchmark for safety standards across the entire automotive industry. We believe that as more Chinese companies obtain ISO/SAE 21434 certification, the competitiveness of China’s automotive industry in the global supply chain will continue to improve, and overall safety and compliance levels will reach new heights. SGS will continue to provide solutions that meet international standards and regulatory requirements, helping companies confidently address global challenges and empower high-quality development across industries with professional expertise. Looking ahead, cybersecurity construction and compliance governance will rise to an even more critical strategic level. Leveraging its technical expertise and global resource integration capabilities, SGS will help companies achieve comprehensive improvements in cybersecurity and functional safety through professional services, collaborating with upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry chain to help China’s automotive industry stand out in international competition, providing strong support for the safe and sustainable development of the global automotive industry.
CertX is a specialized institution under SGS focusing on functional safety, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence, providing product certification, process assessment, and personnel training services for industries such as automotive, railway, and aviation, and deeply participating in the development of international standards like ISO and IEC. SGS’s globally recognized certification qualifications, deep technical expertise, and global service capabilities in automotive cybersecurity can provide companies with evaluation results that have broad international credibility.
In this collaboration with BYD Battery,SGS combined “management system certification” with “process certification” to help the company achieve cybersecurity management and control from organizational governance to the full product lifecycle, ensuring seamless integration of management standards and execution. This model significantly enhances the trustworthiness and market access efficiency of certified companies in the global supply chain, meeting both domestic and international regulations, standards, and regulatory requirements while aligning with actual business operations, providing a practical and verifiable model for the industry.
SGS is an internationally recognized testing, inspection, and certification organization, regarded as the global benchmark for sustainability, quality, and integrity. SGS Management and Assurance Business Unit has deep expertise in the automotive and information and communication technology (ICT) sectors, providing technical support to many well-known companies in areas such as vehicle regulatory certification, information and cybersecurity, privacy security management, and artificial intelligence digital trust. It is committed to offering comprehensive management improvement services to organizations across industries, covering ISO/SAE 21434 automotive cybersecurity management system gap analysis/pre-audits, independent automotive cybersecurity assessment services, threat analysis and risk assessment specialized diagnostic services, automotive supply chain cybersecurity second-party audit services, vehicle and component cybersecurity compliance capability diagnostic services, cybersecurity engineering implementation and system integration diagnostic services, cybersecurity management capability maturity diagnostic customization services, customized automotive and component cybersecurity assessment and penetration testing, vehicle and component cybersecurity testing and validation based on UNECE R155 regulations and GB44495 mandatory standards, ISO/IEC 27001 information security management system certification, ISO/IEC 42001 artificial intelligence management system certification, and TISAX® assessments.
About Shenzhen BYD Lithium Battery Co., Ltd.
Shenzhen BYD Lithium Battery Co., Ltd., established in June 1998, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BYD Co., Ltd. Rooted in the new energy industry, it has been deeply engaged in the battery field for nearly three decades, possessing full-chain independent research and development capabilities and comprehensive mastery of core battery technologies. It has formed a market structure led by lithium-ion power battery applications, with high-end consumer electronics lithium-ion battery applications as an important component and energy storage lithium-ion battery applications as a forward-looking layout, contributing to a new development pattern with domestic circulation as the mainstay and domestic and international circulations mutually reinforcing.
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