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.