Battery Passport : A Comprehensive Guide to Technology, Policy, and Global Implementation

Offers an up-to-date overview of Battery Passports for Sustainable Lifecycle Management

Battery Passport: A Comprehensive Guide to Technology, Policy, and Global Implementation explores one of the most pressing developments in the global battery industry: the creation and implementation of digital passports to track batteries across their full lifecycle. As demand for electric vehicles, renewable energy storage, and portable devices accelerates, supply chains are under unprecedented pressure―and questions of sustainability, transparency, and accountability have become unavoidable. The Battery Passport is a powerful tool to address these challenges by documenting a battery’s origin, performance, and environmental impact while enabling compliance with emerging global regulations.

This timely book delivers a comprehensive analysis of the Battery Passport ecosystem, spanning the technological foundations, the equipment required, and the intricate policy frameworks that underpin its implementation. Each chapter examines a critical dimension, such as international standards, infrastructure design, economic models, ESG implications, and integration with emerging digital technologies. Through detailed case studies, readers gain insight into how early adopters are deploying passport systems and the lessons these examples provide. The author offers a roadmap for overcoming unresolved issues, including data security, interoperability, and cross-border policy alignment.

Equipping readers to understand and advance global efforts in sustainability, digitalization, and the circular economy, Battery Passport:

• Analyzes the full lifecycle of batteries through a systems approach, from production to end-of-life recycling
• Includes discussion of cutting-edge recycling processes and their connection to passport data
• Maps the technological architecture enabling passport implementation, including data standards and digital platforms
• Explores business model innovation enabled by lifecycle traceability and transparency
• Features forward-looking analysis of integration with blockchain, IoT, and AI technologies
• Offers actionable insights and strategic guidance for stakeholders across industries and governments

Battery Passport: A Comprehensive Guide to Technology, Policy, and Global Implementation is an essential resource for professionals and researchers working in energy technology, materials science, and sustainable engineering, particularly in programs related to renewable energy systems, industrial ecology, and electrical engineering. It is also an indispensable reference for professionals in battery manufacturing, supply chain management, energy policy, and sustainability consulting.

Xiao Lin, Founder and CEO of Botree Recycling Technologies, China, professor level senior engineer. Working in critical battery metals separation and purification technologies, revolutionary solution for EV and energy storage battery recycling and materials regeneration. Served clients cover >60% Chinese Li-ion battery recycling output capacity, >45% Global market. Finished 50+ research and commercial projects, granted prizes like national technology invention and national key practical technologies of environmental protection. Published 40 papers, been authorized 30+ patents, participated in the formulation of international and national standards. Member of National Technical Committee SAC/TC294 on Discarded or Disused Chemicals Disposal. Steering committee member of Global battery alliance (GBA) battery passport.
 
Ilai Bendavid is a Cambridge-trained specialist in environmental policy, energy systems, and sustainable mobility, with professional experience across industry, international organizations, and European institutions. He holds an MPhil in Planning, Growth and Regeneration from the University of Cambridge, a BSc in Business and Management from Queen Mary University of London, and graduate-level training in environmental, energy and transport economics at AgroParisTech. His work has addressed European power-market resilience, natural-gas crisis-response strategies, and urban mobility behaviour, including published work on e-scooter trip purposes and modal substitution carried out with the University of Cambridge, Transport for London and Tier Mobility. At the European Commission (DG RTD), he contributed to the valorisation of Horizon Europe projects and supported cooperation between regional networks, cities, and industrial stakeholders in the fields of future mobility and urban innovation. His current interests center on battery-recycling policy, circular-economy regulation, the financing of circular-economy infrastructure, and the development of digital systems such as the Battery Passport, which he advances through his role in government affairs and business development at Botree Recycling Technologies.
 
Bin Wu is Director of Sustainability Consulting at Botree Recycling Technologies, holding a master?s degree in material science from KU Leuven. As an expert in Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), he has accumulated years of experience in product carbon footprint research at leading international manufacturing enterprises, with solid expertise in carbon footprint modeling and analysis. Currently, he is deeply engaged in research, analysis of carbon footprint, recycled content, regulation compliance across the lithium battery and new energy industry chains, and has participated in the compilation and review of numerous domestic and international carbon footprint standards, including participating in the expert review of the European Union Joint Research Centre (JRC)-led Battery Regulation carbon footprint calculation rules (CFB-EV for electric vehicle batteries, CFB-INB for industrial batteries), contributing to the formulation of automobile life cycle assessment regulations under the United Nations World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (UN/WP.29), the Global Battery Alliance (GBA) battery greenhouse gas (GHG) calculation rulebook, and the International Lithium Association (ILiA) lithium product carbon footprint guidelines. He has undertaken over 50 sustainability-related consulting projects.
 
Shengrui Qi is a Sustainability Consultant at Botree Recycling Technologies, China, holding a master?s degree in environmental engineering. His main research interests include Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the lithium-ion battery value chain, EU circular economy regulations, and sustainability compliance. He serves as a reviewer for the carbon footprint standard developed by the International Lithium Association and has participated in drafting China?s national standards for power battery carbon footprint and labeling.
 
Xue Wang, PhD, is Principal Analyst of Botree Cycling. She obtained her doctorate in Material Engineering from KU Leuven. Her research is focused on new metallurgical process technology and waste resource treatment technology. Responsible for the routine operations of the IEA HEV TCP Task 48 Battery Swapping, successfully organized four online workshops in 2023 focusing on battery swapping for electric two and three-wheelers, commercial vehicles, passenger EVs, as well as maritime and aviation.