Battery passport

Batteries first.
Everyone else
is watching.

The first mandatory passport category — and the template every other industry will copy.

Light means of transport · Industrial · Electric vehicle
AUTHENTAG™DE ▾
Velten PowerBatteriepass
VERIFIEDauthentag
VP-48 Akkupack
✓ Kryptografisch als echt bestätigt
Gesundheitszustand 94%
Ladezyklen182
ChemieNMC · 720 Wh
CO₂-Fußabdruck41.8 kg
RezyklatanteilKobalt 16%
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Per-unit health Owner unlocks with the shipped code 6 languages
Timing

Work backwards from the port.

The obligation attaches when a battery is placed on the market — not when it ships.

Backwards plan from enforcement date to supplier data collection Ask suppliers first-timers need 2–3 months Oct 2026 Cargo leaves Asia 6–8 weeks door to door Dec 2026 – Jan 2027 Placed on the market passport required 18 Feb 2027 The date that binds your programme is the first one. By the last one, the decisions were made months ago.
Applicability

Not every point applies to you.

Category and date decide it — and getting that wrong costs months of chasing the wrong suppliers.

By category

A point mandatory for electric-vehicle batteries can be explicitly not-to-be-filled for light means of transport, and the reverse also happens.

By date

Several points switch on years later, on dates that differ by category. Chasing them now wastes the window you actually have.

Resolved for you

The form shows what applies today, keeps future points visible with their date, and never counts them against your readiness.

How readiness is calculated →

Three layers of data

Three sources. Three timelines.

Model & batch

Chemistry, capacity, materials, footprint, certificates. Entered once. Mostly held by cell suppliers and test laboratories — this is the long pole.

Lifecycle

Repair, repurposing, status changes. Appended over years, each entry archived so the sequence stays auditable.

Per unit

State of health, cycle count, measured performance. One row per battery, arriving after the product is in use — never a form field.

State of health

Getting the number out of the pack.

Most packs show health data only to a service technician. Three ways to change that.

Files

Periodic upload from your service records. A column that does not belong is rejected, not silently accepted.

System feed

Direct from an OEM cloud or fleet platform, signed at source.

Chip bridge

For packs with no connectivity: the controller writes signed readings into an NFC chip; a phone tap reads them. No app, no pairing.

Engineering programme — bench-proven, in pilot with partners.

A missing reading answers "no data" — never a zero that reads like a claim.

One model. One batch. Six weeks.

Enough to learn exactly which suppliers will be the problem.