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Battery Passport

Sustainability through transparency

With the Bosch Battery Passport, you comply with EU battery regulations through complete transparency across your batteries' lifecycle – the digital twin solution supports regulatory compliance while forming the foundation for numerous additional value-creating applications.
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Battery Passport countdown: Ready for 2027?

Starting 2027, EU regulations will mandate a digital battery passport for all batteries placed or put into service on the EU market. This includes electric vehicle batteries, light means of transport batteries, and industrial batteries with a capacity of 2kWh or more.

Transforming compliance into a competitive advantage

Benefits at a glance:

Full efficiency, transparency, and traceability

Harmonized and centralized management of battery data over the entire life cycle.

Regulatory compliance

Meets all EU requirements and industry-specific regulations regarding batteries.

High scalability and reuse of data

Easy reuse of battery data and implementation of other product data for further use cases.

Requirements and Deadlines

Batteries for Electrical Vehicles (EV)

The Battery Passport is mandatory for batteries designed to power hybrid or pure electric vehicles of classes M, N, and O. Batteries for lighter vehicles of class L (e.g., electric motorcycles) are also affected, provided the battery itself exceeds a weight of 25 kg.

Batteries for Light Means of Transport (LMT)

This category includes batteries with a total weight of over 5 kg but not exceeding 25 kg. They are intended for light transport vehicles powered by an electric motor. Typical examples include e-bikes, e-scooters, and other small, personal electric vehicles.

Industrial Batteries

This includes all batteries with a weight of over 5 kg, as well as batteries specifically designed for industrial purposes or prepared for industrial reuse (second life). Only LMT, EV, and batteries for starting, lighting, and ignition (SLI) are explicitly excluded.

Main Responsibility

The fundamental duty to create and provide the Battery Passport lies with the economic operator who first places a battery on the EU market or puts it into service for their own use.

Responsibility in Special Cases

The regulation clearly assigns responsibility: Importers who bring batteries into the EU are legally treated as manufacturers and are therefore fully responsible. Device manufacturers must also provide the passport if they are the first to place the battery on the market themselves.

Timeline & Consequences

The crucial deadline for the introduction is February 18, 2027. From this date, the digital battery pass is a mandatory requirement for placing new batteries on the market. Anyone who does not implement the digital battery pass risks severe penalties, such as heavy fines (according to § 29 of the German Battery Act (BattG), offenses are subject to fines of up to €100,000 per individual case), sales bans in the EU, the market withdrawal of non-compliant batteries, and sometimes also civil law consequences such as claims for damages, as this violates new EU regulations, particularly the Battery Regulation (EU) 2023/1542.

Functions in detail

Automated creation of battery passports

The battery passport is automatically created for various stakeholders: ‘General public’, ‘Interested parties’ and ‘Authorities’. A digital twin is created for each individual battery, based on the open-source IDTA standard, i.e. the Asset Administration Shell (AAS). This is done automatically via an ETL pipeline, and each twin is registered in the Digital Twin Registry for easy location and access.

Authorization management and comprehensive approval process

The various stakeholders only see the data relevant to them, which is ensured by differentiated access controls. A complete review and approval process for all battery data is implemented.

Automated calculation of legally required dynamic attributes

The system enables the precise and fully automated calculation of all legally required dynamic attributes for battery products. This comprehensive solution is specifically designed to cover the entire spectrum of battery types, chemistries, purposes, form factors, and capacity. This innovative feature is provided by "Battery in the Cloud," Bosch's intelligent, connected solution for improved battery management.

Passport data can be retrieved via APIs and user interface

The battery passport can be retrieved via APIs with push and pull services and has also a user-friendly UI.

Digital Twins as foundation for diverse use cases

The solution scales freely beyond the battery passport. The underlying data strategy in the Bosch Semantic Stack can be used for all product data throughout their entire lifecycle. Thanks to the digital twin-based architecture and the easy reusability of your data, you can implement numerous additional use cases with minimal effort.

Catena-X-certified interoperability and data sovereignty

The solution uses a Catena-X certified Digital Twin Registry that ensures the highest interoperability and quality standards for access to the collaborative data space of the automotive industry. Through the decentralized architecture, companies can manage their battery data sovereignly and selectively share it with partners along the value chain, while their own data remains protected at all times.

Turn compliance into competitive edge.

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