Battery passport data, organised before February 2027
For manufacturers and importers of batteries that need to collect passport data from cell and material suppliers.
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From 18 February 2027
Legal basis
Batteries Regulation (EU) 2023/1542
Binding. From 18 February 2027 a battery passport is required for electric-vehicle batteries, batteries for light means of transport and industrial batteries with a capacity above 2 kWh.
- 18 February 2027
- A battery passport is required from this date
- 3
- Categories in scope: light means of transport, industrial above 2 kWh, electric vehicles
- QR
- Access to the passport through a QR code on the battery
- 1 : 1
- One passport for each individual battery, not only per model
Challenge
The challenge: a fixed date and data you do not hold
Batteries are the first product group with a passport date written into law. The passport covers a wide range of information: identification, chemistry and composition, performance and durability, carbon footprint, recycled content and supply-chain due diligence.
A pack manufacturer or importer holds only part of it. Cell chemistry, recycled content of cobalt, lithium, nickel and lead, and footprint data come from cell and material suppliers, often outside the EU. The time needed to obtain reliable answers is usually longer than the time needed to set up software.
Battery passport
What a battery passport shows
Scanning the QR code on a battery opens the passport of exactly that battery. Four groups of information carry most of the work.
Battery passport
P-36 · 504 Wh
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- Category
- Light means of transport
- Chemistry
- Li-ion (NMC)
- Rated capacity
- 14 Ah
- Nominal voltage
- 36 V
- Weight
- 2.9 kg
- Manufactured
- March 2027
State of health96%
Legitimate interest
Identity and manufacturer
Manufacturer, battery category and model, place and date of manufacture, weight and the unique identifier behind the QR code.
Chemistry and composition
Battery chemistry, critical raw materials and hazardous substances. The detailed composition is reserved for persons with a legitimate interest.
Performance and durability
Rated capacity, voltage, power capability and expected lifetime per model; state of health for the individual battery.
Footprint and recycled content
Carbon footprint information, shares of recycled cobalt, lithium, nickel and lead, and due-diligence information, as far as they apply to your category.
Who may see what
Annex XIII of the regulation sorts the information into three access groups. The platform stores an audience for every field and already publishes these three views.
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Functions
How the platform supports battery projects
- A battery field set, configured with you
- We set up the fields for your battery category against the regulation, with section, level and audience for each.
- Structured requests to cell suppliers
- Each supplier receives a link with exactly the fields they must provide and a due date.
- Public and restricted information
- The regulation distinguishes information for the public, for parties with a legitimate interest and for authorities. The platform stores this per field.
- Readiness per model
- See for each battery model which sections are complete and which supplier answers are outstanding.
Scope
Every field gets a clear status
In the scoping phase we go through the passport information for your battery category and mark each field. You see what is due on the first day and what can wait.
- MandatoryRequired for your battery category from the date of application.
- ConditionalRequired only if a condition is met, for example a capacity threshold or a certain chemistry.
- LaterApplies from a later date or once a delegated act is in force.
- Not applicableNot relevant for this category; recorded with the reason.
- FulfilledValue and evidence are on file and reviewed.
Readiness per pack model
P-36 · 36 V · 14 Ah82%
P-48 · 48 V · 14 Ah57%
P-52 · 52 V · 16 Ah34%
Example with three pack models and sample values.
Lifecycle
From the model to the single battery
A battery passport is not a static data sheet. It follows the battery from production to recycling.
Battery model
Information that is the same for every battery of a model: chemistry, composition, carbon footprint, recycled content.
Individual battery
Each battery has its own passport, reached through its QR code and unique identifier. Values such as the state of health belong to the single battery.
Second life and end of life
A repurposed or remanufactured battery receives a new passport linked to the original one. After recycling the passport ceases to exist.
Today the platform issues one code per product record. Codes and data per individual battery are scoped in a project.
Process
Use case: e-bike battery packs
A manufacturer of batteries for light means of transport prepares three pack models.
Scope
Together we map the passport information for this battery category to a field set.
Own data first
Identification, manufacturer and performance data from your own documents are entered per model.
Supplier data
Requests for chemistry, recycled content and footprint values go to the cell supplier.
Review and gaps
Submitted data is reviewed. Open points are visible per model well before the date.
Data
Typical data
- Battery model, category and manufacturer
- Chemistry and material composition
- Capacity, performance and durability parameters
- Carbon footprint
- Recycled content
- Due-diligence information
Benefits
What you gain
- A complete list of what is missing, by model and by supplier
- Evidence of who delivered which data and when
- An early view of suppliers that cannot answer
- A structure that can be extended to further battery models
Related
Related functions and guides
Not available today: passports per individual battery with data that changes during use, such as state of health. This requires integration with your systems and is scoped in a project. Battery passports also have to meet technical requirements for the data carrier and for data exchange that we check with you for your case.
Talk through your battery passport project
Tell us which batteries you make or import. We look at the scope together and show you the platform with your questions in mind.
What you take from the call
- Which of your batteries are in scope and from when
- A first map of your data sources against the passport information groups
- A proposal with scope, timeline and price