Starting from February 2027, electric vehicles sold in Europe are required to have a battery passport.
Accordingly, the battery passport will provide detailed information about the supply chain, the source of supply, and other information about the raw materials of the battery pack, such as performance and durability.
This new regulation from the European Union (EU) aims to require battery or vehicle manufacturers to disclose the amount of carbon emissions from the production process and gradually move towards recycling information.
Ellen Carey, Director of External Affairs at Circulor, the company responsible for producing the battery passport, said: “Many manufacturers are not really aware of the supply chain, they can change suppliers 3-4 times a year depending on the contracts. This is quite common in the mass-market segment, as companies constantly try to minimize costs.”
Carey said the passports will cost between $7.6 – $13.95 (186.6 – 342 thousand VND) per battery pack.
Currently, the battery passports developed by Circulor for electric vehicles can disclose the origins of cobalt, lead, lithium, mica, and nickel in the batteries, with information such as where they were mined, how much they weigh, how long they were processed…
Currently, the information required in the battery passports is still being discussed. The Battery Passport Association (Battery Pass Consortium) has been established to manage this issue, under the sponsorship of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in cooperation with car manufacturers such as Audi and BMW.
The battery passport will use industrial Internet of Things data to identify organizations believed to be part of the manufacturer’s supply chain and use application programming interface data as well as enterprise resource planning data to create a digital copy of the paper-trail battery.
TH (Tuoitrethudo)