About the Digital Battery Passport Demo

From 2027, all battery manufacturers who place their products on the market in the EU will be obliged to issue digital battery passports. (More information on what this means and which battery types this applies to can be found further down on this website.)

BloqSens AG is currently in the process of becoming the first Swiss provider to implement a platform via which such digital battery passports can be generated if participating battery manufacturers provide the necessary data via interfaces.

Our aim is not only to comply with EU directives (which have not yet been fully defined), but also to implement features that offer battery manufacturers further added value.

At this stage, the constantly evolving demo version is only intended to provide an initial preview of what such a battery passport could look like.

About us – BloqSens AG

BloqSens AG, based in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, stands for individual solutions & services for the secure handling of data. For highly sensitive data and use cases, we rely on distributed ledger technologies (often referred to simply as blockchain).

More than ten years of experience in the smart metering business meets more than twenty years of expertise in the implementation of complex web, platform, database and API projects.
With BloqSens AG, we bundle this expertise and offer both a scalable and customizable platform solution and consulting services. We develop solutions that can be used across all industries and are tailored to individual customer needs.

Our dynamic team has outstanding expertise in the areas of IoT, intelligent data processing and distributed ledger technologies.

European Green Deal

Why Digital Battery Passports?

The EU is striving to be the first climate-neutral continent. In order to overcome the challenges of climate change and environmental destruction, the European Green Deal is intended to transform the EU into a resource-efficient economic zone.

Several initiatives and programs are being implemented as part of these efforts. Of particular interest here is the Sustainable Products Initiative (SPI) launched in March 2022, which also includes a proposal for the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR).

The ESPR provides for the introduction of digital product passports to promote the move towards a circular economy. These product passports will gradually become mandatory for various product categories. The digital battery passport is therefore a kind of pioneer and batteries are one of the first product categories for which such a digital passport will soon be required.

In very short:

From February 18, 2027, industrial, EV*- and LMT**-batteries with a capacity >2 kWh must be electronically registered with a battery passport.
*EV: electric vehicles (batteries for cars) | ** LMT: light means of transport (batteries for e-bikes, e-scooter and similar)
The manufacturer or importer is responsible for ensuring that the battery passport is implemented properly.
The passport must contain specific information about the batteries, but also about the ESG requirements, and provide battery handling instructions for both second/third use and recycling.

“EU rules on batteries aim to make batteries sustainable throughout their entire life cycle – from the sourcing of materials to their collection, recycling and repurposing. In the current energy context, the new rules promote the development of a competitive sustainable battery industry, which will support Europe’s clean energy transition and independence from fuel imports.” (Source & read more: European Commission: Ensuring that batteries placed on the EU market are sustainable and circular throughout their whole life cycle.)

Batteries in a circular economy

Batteries must be easily removable and replaceable.
Standards to avoid social and ecological risks (in raw material extraction as well as in production) must be adhered to.
Expectedly from 2031, batteries >2 kWh must contain a minimum proportion of recycled raw materials: cobalt 16%, lead 85%, lithium 6%, nickel 6%.
From 2027, all of these aspects must be carefully documented in a digital battery passport:
- Information about the CO2 footprint of production
- Information about the battery, its performance, durability and chemical composition
- Information about recyclability and disposal

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