BatteryPass Ready develops test environment for the battery passport

Berlin, May 22, 2025

The BatteryPass-Ready project will enter its first implementation phase on April 1, 2025, with the launch of the BatteryPass-Ready project. The goal of the project consortium is to develop a test environment for BatteryPass users and make it accessible to all stakeholders in the battery ecosystem. For this step in the implementation of digital product passports, BatteryPass-Ready uses the content from the predecessor BatteryPass project as a basis. The BatteryPass-Ready project will run for two years and is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE).

Batteries play a key role in a sustainable energy supply. This applies to industrial power storage systems, but also to electromobility. Starting in February 2027, the EU-mandatory battery passport will apply, creating transparency in data from the entire battery life cycle, including production, use, and increased recycling. This presents challenges for battery suppliers and producers: They must adapt their data management and create the technical requirements for the battery passport. This poses major hurdles for small and medium-sized enterprises with limited resources.

For these companies, the BatteryPass-Ready consortium is developing a test environment that will facilitate the introduction of the battery passport for companies along the entire value chain and help ensure greater security in implementation: Distributors and service providers can check whether their solutions are compliant with EU standards right from the development phase, thus ensuring a smooth connection to the planned system.

Holger Hanselka , President of the Fraunhofer Society, says Prof:

The transparent, interoperable, and trustworthy provision of data is the foundation for the success of the digital product passport.

“With the BatteryPass-Ready project, we are creating a test environment to quickly disseminate the battery passport and make it secure and directly usable for industry, because reliable data is becoming gold in the digital circular economy,”

In the test environment, users can

Analyze ongoing developments on mandatory data points.
Use provided test data or incorporate your own data.
Test the completeness and plausibility of the data.
Ensure compliance of the battery passport with standards .
Conduct, monitor, and log tests.
Use emulation environments – especially for components provided and operated by the European Commission (e.g., registry).

In addition, the project will provide action guidelines for politicians and companie

Acatech President Thomas Weber, pleased with the project launch, said:

Digital product passports like the battery passport are a key enabler when it comes to building a circular economy.

“But they are much more: We must understand them as an efficiency tool that goes far beyond simply complying with the EU Battery Regulation. They help us save resources, become more independent of critical raw materials, and create new added value in the battery ecosystem. The sooner, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, gain experience in their use, the faster and more widely stakeholders can be convinced of the added value of digital product passports – and use them,”

As a follow-up to the BatteryPass project, BatteryPass-Ready provides stakeholders with a central point of contact for information on the current status of the battery pass implementation. Policy options for action are intended to accompany the administratively challenging introduction of the battery pass. Close dialogue among stakeholders in workshops and other interactive formats is therefore part of the project concept.

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