The battery although is at its central role for green transitioning of the road transport, the current battery supply chain is lacking in traceability and sustainability, resiliency, and circularity aspects. Critical Raw Materials (CRM) are essential ingredients for battery manufacturing. The exploding growth of Electric vehicles driven by the climate neutrality policy objectives will create pressure on CRM supply chain and will increase the EU dependency for CRM on 3rd countries, resulting in decrease of competitiveness of theEU automotive and battery manufacturers. Implementation of the digital battery passport (DBP) concept in the battery value chain might resolve these issues.

The main goal of BASE project is to develop, validate and implement a working DBP service, as mandated by the “Regulation”, by exploiting the collected data via number of constantly evolving tools and methods, to ensure transparent, secure, and cost-efficient platform operation, by also catalyzing the growth of circular businesses.

The BASE will develop transparent methodologies to calculate battery performance & ESGE indicators while ensuring traceability down to CRM level through the entire battery value chain. In the physical domain this will be achieved through the mass balancing approach. For data management side, exploiting distributed ledger technology, the BASE will ensure built-in data authenticity verification, along the value chain, with no data duplication, avoiding data manipulation assuring privacy by design, with promoting data interoperability.

The DBP will provide up to date & accurate battery performance indicator data, remaining useful life data, dismantling data, material compositional data, safety data, allowing to increase the useful service life of battery and more efficient recycling, which will increase the resource efficiency, reduce the waste and EU dependency of CRM on 3rd countries. The applicability of DBP will be demonstrated through 4 pilot use cases.
 

Project Partners

• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (IEG, ISE, SCAI)
• Beeplanet Factory SL
• Adscensus MB
• Parakeet BV
• Technovative Solutions Ltd
• INND Batteries BV
• Ford Otomotiv Sanayi Anonim Sirketi
• Artech International BVBA
• Corvus Norway AS
• Mercedes-Benz Turk AS
• SERAPH Consulting Ltd.
• ROK Metals SARL
• Aspilsan Enerji Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S.
• Navtek Deniz Teknolojisi Anonim Sirketi
• European Lithium Institute
• University Of Surrey
• Fondation Pour L’Institut de Hautes Etudes Internationales et du Developement
• SQM SA
• Exitcom Recycling Atik Tasima Toplama Depolama Elektronik Ve Gemi Sanayi Ticaret Ltd. Sti.

Funded by the European Commission / Grant Agreement No: 101157200
Project duration: 06/2024 until 05/2028