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Insights (2): Explicit Information Requirements for the EU’s Battery Passport

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Insights Post – Part 2 of 3.

The information in this post is now superceded.

NOTE – this blog post relates to a 2023 reserach project which was analysing the evolving EU Batteries Regulation.

In Part 1of our series of insights post, we provided a basic overview of the EU’s new Battery Regulations and what this meant for the idea of a product passport ecosystem, finishing on a set of nine questions that characterise the information sought by the EU.

In this second video, we cover the explicit information requirements of the EU’s battery regulation mapped on to the nine key functions of a battery passport ecosystem, as identified from our research.

Part 3 of our insights posts goes on to describe the timeline by which these information points should be accessible.

Insights (1): Battery Passports and the EU’s new Battery Regulations

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Insights Post – Part 1 of 3.

The information in this post is now superceded.

NOTE – this blog post relates to a 2023 reserach project which was analysing the evolving EU Batteries Regulation.

The EU’s new Battery Regulations are nearly here, and will introduce the first mandatory adoption of product passport technologies.

In this first video, we introduce the EU’s battery regulation and explain it in the context of a ‘Battery Passport Ecosystem’ that we have generated as part of our research.

In short: Battery passports are an information sharing tool designed to improve know-how within the battery value chain, and its overall capability.  But their benefits are largely dependent on the information that ends up inside each passport. In the EU’s new battery regulation, three new information innovations are introduced; an Electronic Exchange System, a Battery Passport, and a QR Smart Label. These are being introduced to encourage (and enforce) information transfer between stakeholders. The EU positions these as separate ‘systems’ within the regulation, but information requirements overlap, so really these should be seen as part of a wider battery passport ecosystem, seeking to address nine common questions.

The nine key questions that a battery passport seeks to answer. Figure (c) Mr Paul D Timms 2022

In Part 2, we will explain these nine functional viewpoints of a battery passport ecosystem in more detail, and will identify the explicit and implicit information requirements introduced by the new battery regulations. In Part 3 we will show the timeline by which these information points should be accessible.