EU Regulation 2023/1542 · Article 77
Every battery needs a passport.
Battery Digital Passport issues EU-compliant digital battery passports — QR-linked, machine-readable records of identity, carbon footprint, materials and state of health for every EV, industrial and LMT battery.
Conforms with
- GS1 Digital Link
- CIRPASS-2
- ISO/IEC 15459
- W3C DID
Trusted by operators across the value chain
- Voltcell
- Nordvolt
- Circulyon
- Ampere OEM
- Regen Pack
The deadline is fixed
18 February 2027.
On that date the battery passport becomes a condition of market access across the EU. No passport, no sale — for every EV, LMT and industrial battery over 2 kWh. Battery Digital Passport gets your data model, QR carriers and access tiers production-ready long before then.
01What it is
A passport is a battery's identity — readable by anyone, editable by no one.
Scan the QR code printed on the cell and you reach a live, tamper-evident record: who made it, what's inside it, what it cost the planet, and how healthy it is today. The public sees the basics. Regulators, recyclers and owners each get their own tier. Battery Digital Passport builds and hosts every layer.
One battery, one identifier
A globally unique product identifier and QR carrier per battery, resolvable via GS1 Digital Link — the anchor for everything else.
Structured, verifiable data
Every Annex XIII field — carbon footprint, composition, due diligence, durability — stored as signed, machine-readable data.
Tiered, lifelong access
Public, restricted and authority tiers — served for the battery's entire life and kept available after the operator's exit.
02How it works
From bill of materials to scannable passport in four steps.
- Step 01
Model
Map your BOM, supplier and lab data onto the regulated schema. Battery Digital Passport ships the Annex XIII data model out of the box.
- Step 02
Verify
Validation, carbon-footprint checks and due-diligence evidence are signed by economic operators and notified bodies.
- Step 03
Mint
A unique identifier and QR carrier are generated per battery and resolved through GS1 Digital Link.
- Step 04
Serve
Each audience reaches its tier at scan time; state of health updates over the battery's whole life.
03What's inside
The six data categories of Annex XIII.
Category A
Identification
The battery's fingerprint — the anchor every other field hangs off.
Category B
Carbon footprint
The battery's climate cost, declared and classified.
Category C
Materials & composition
What the battery is made of — and how much of it came back from recycling.
Category D
Supply-chain due diligence
Proof the raw materials were responsibly sourced.
Category E
Performance & durability
How well the battery performs — and for how long.
Category F
Circularity & state of health
The living part of the passport — updated across the battery's whole life.
04Who needs one
Three categories in scope from day one.
EV batteries
Traction batteries for electric vehicles — the flagship category, with the deepest carbon-footprint and state-of-health obligations.
Scope · all EV batteriesIndustrial batteries
Stationary storage, grid and back-up systems above 2 kWh — including second-life packs re-entering the market.
Scope · > 2 kWhLMT batteries
Light means of transport — e-bikes, e-scooters and e-mopeds. In scope regardless of capacity.
Scope · all LMT
05Why Battery Digital Passport
Compliance-grade infrastructure, not a spreadsheet.
Regulation-native schema
The data model tracks Regulation 2023/1542 and its delegated acts, so you're never mapping to a moving target by hand.
Tamper-evident by design
Every declaration is signed and versioned. Regulators verify provenance without trusting a single database.
Tiered access control
Public, legitimate-interest and authority tiers are enforced per field — exactly as the regulation prescribes.
Guaranteed persistence
Passports stay resolvable for the battery's entire life — and remain available even after an operator ceases activity.
06For developers
One API call. A live passport.
Push your battery data to a single REST endpoint and get back a resolvable passport URL, a print-ready QR carrier, and a signed conformance record. SDKs for TypeScript, Python and Go.
// POST a battery, mint a passportPOST https://api.batterydigitalpassport.com/v1/passports { "category": "EV", "chemistry": "NMC811", "capacity_kwh": 82, "carbon_kgco2e_per_kwh": 61, "recycled_content": { "cobalt": 0.16 }} // → 201 Created"passport_url": "batterydigitalpassport.com/p/8842K19""status": "conformant"Be passport-ready before the market forces you to.
Start with one battery line today. Scale to your full catalogue long before 18 February 2027.