Parliament Wants Mandatory EV Battery Testing — Who Picks Up the Certification Bill?

On Nov 12, Parliament's Sectoral Oversight Committee on Science, Technology and Digital Transformation called for mandatory testing and certification standards covering EV batteries, controllers and charging stations, something Sri Lanka still doesn't require. NERDC apparently has facilities to test battery capacity and lifespan, but there's no compulsory certification before an EV gets registered, so what's on the showroom floor depends entirely on the importer's word. One side: with well over 100,000 EVs already on the road and zero accredited verification, any pack that's been swapped, degraded, or built with substandard cells slips through untested, so mandatory certification is overdue, not excessive. The other side: Sri Lanka doesn't have the lab capacity or accredited engineers to test every imported EV at scale, so "mandatory" could just mean longer customs queues, with the certification cost tacked onto your invoice and budget buyers priced out even further. If this becomes law, who should pay to get a battery certified, the importer upfront or the buyer at registration? And would you trust a government lab test over the manufacturer's own certificate? ඔයාගේ EV එකේ බැටරිය test කරලද ගත්තේ? අදහස් දාන්න.