TSEP#208 From Concept to Blueprint: Battery Passports as Enablers of Transparent, Competitive, and Circular Value Chains

Batteries have become indispensable to our decarbonisation
effort, powering electric vehicles and energy storage systems
worldwide. However, their ecological and social impacts often
remain hidden. The EU-wide mandatory digital battery passport,
set to take effect in February 2027, aims to change this. It is
designed to become a key instrument for ensuring the sustainable
scaling of battery value chains worldwide.


Tilman Vahle is the Director of Sustainable Automotive and
Batteries at Systemic. He has been developing and leading the
Battery Pass Project and a multi-stakeholder consortium with
leading industrial and academic institutions in the battery
sector.


In this episode, we examine the digital battery passport, its
aim, how it works, who is involved and the role of Tilman Vahle
and Systemiq in the project.


About Tilmann Vahle, The Battery Pass and
Systemiq


Tilmann Vahle


Tilmann Vahle is the director of Sustainable Automotive and
Batteries at Systemiq, a world-leading systems change advisory.
Most importantly for this episode, he has been developing and
leading the battery pass project—a multi-stakeholder consortium
with leading industrial and academic institutions in the battery
sector.


The Battery Pass


The digital battery passport (https://thebatterypass.eu/) will be
a core tool for enabling the globally sustainable scaling of
battery value chains.


Systemiq


Systemiq, the system change company, was founded to help design
and build a better economy. It aims to bring speed and scale to
transforming five systems that shape our lives and work: energy,
nature and food, materials, urban areas, and finance.