Manufacturing news · November 2025
Industry prepares for the EU digital battery passport, due February 2027
A November 2025 briefing set out the looming EU digital battery passport obligation: from 18 February 2027, all electric-vehicle, light-transport and industrial batteries above 2 kWh placed on the EU market must carry a QR-code-linked digital passport.
Required data spans the battery's identity, chemical composition, carbon footprint, raw-material origins, charging cycles, state of health, recyclability and end-of-life instructions, and must be hosted on a certified platform. Mandated under the EU Battery Regulation, the passport is the first product-specific application of the EU's Digital Product Passport concept.
By making provenance, durability and recycling data transparent, the battery passport is designed to enable repair, reuse, second-life applications and material recovery — key enablers of circular manufacturing for batteries.