Digital Product Passports for Battery & Energy Storage

Intro

• Batteries are central to the energy transition and heavily regulated.
• EU Battery Regulation + ESPR require deeper transparency and a Battery Passport.

Landing card:

• ❌ Strict EU compliance requirements
• ✅ Real-time tracking of materials

What the EU Battery Regulation actually demands

• Carbon footprint disclosure
• Recycled content & circularity
• Traceability of critical raw materials (cobalt, lithium, nickel)
• Social/environmental due diligence
• Labelling + electronic Battery Passport
• Need for a robust data backbone across multi-tier supply chains

The problem: disconnected tracking across the battery lifecycle

• Raw material suppliers and refiners
• Cell manufacturers
• Pack integrators
• OEMs / EV makers
• Recyclers / second-life operators

Each uses their own systems — no single data thread from sourcing to end-of-life. This makes it difficult to prove compliance, respond to audits, or build circular models.

How Etmita Passport supports Battery & Energy Storage

Etmita Passport enables a Battery DPP (Digital Product Passport) for each battery or product line.

It links to:

• Raw material sources & refiners
• Cell and pack manufacturing sites
• Performance & safety data
• Carbon footprint and recycled content
• End-of-life instructions and partners

Supports real-time or near-real-time updates from partners.

Key features for batteries

• Material & component traceability — critical materials tracked back to source and forward to batches
• Lifecycle tracking — production → use → end-of-life
• Regulation-aligned data model — matches EU Battery Regulation & ESPR drafts
• Public vs. Private views
  • Public QR page for consumers / service centres
  • Private Extended view for OEMs, regulators, auditors
• Analytics & reporting — compliance & performance by product, portfolio, geography

Pros and cons of adopting DPP for batteries

Pros

• ✅ Structured compliance with EU Battery Regulation & ESPR
• ✅ Better oversight of critical raw material sourcing
• ✅ Stronger collaboration with recyclers and second-life partners
• ✅ Reduced audit and reporting workload
• ✅ Clearer story to OEM customers and regulators

Trade-offs / challenges

• ⚠️ Coordination across many partners
• ⚠️ Sensitive data requires careful access control
• ⚠️ Real-time tracking depends on partner integrations

Example use cases

• Cell manufacturer piloting a Battery Passport for EV batteries
• Energy storage company needing traceability for stationary systems
• OEM wanting a unified view of battery compliance across suppliers

Call to action

Strict compliance is already here, not something in the future.

Talk to us about a Battery Passport pilot for your next product line.