Featured in Material change – 03-2024

UP: Making the battery pass

The Battery Pass is a digital passport meant to promote the sustainable scaling of global battery value chains. Battery makers will need to adhere to the framework of legislation forming the Battery Pass in the European Union by 2027. Leading up to this, recently-passed legislation already requires players all along the value chain to think more carefully about the raw materials in their products.

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Carrie Hampel

11 Mar 2024

New European Union legislation will require battery makers to provide detailed documentation on the sourcing of the raw materials in their products, particularly critical materials such as lithium. | Photo: NASA

In the future, each battery should display, among other things, where its raw materials come from and under what conditions; what the CO2 footprint is at every stage; and data to inform reuse and recycling.In February 2024, a new European Union regulation increased the sustainability and safety requirements for batteries, new and used. Christian Theeck, …

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