Everledger, Ford to launch EV battery passport pilot
Everledger, Ford to launch EV battery passport pilot
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Digital transparency company Everledger, London, has announced that it will launch an electric vehicle (EV) battery passport pilot along with the Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan, to track the batteries throughout their lifecycle to ensure responsible management during their use, as well as end-of-life recycling.
Everledger says the pilot will allow Ford to gain visibility on out-of-warranty batteries, validate responsible end-of-life recycling and gain access to data such as recycled critical minerals produced and associated carbon dioxide savings. The companies will use the battery passport solution to track batteries in various late and newer EV models for six months, working together with U.S.-based lithium-ion battery (LIB) processors Cirba Solutions, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Li-Cycle Corp., Toronto.
The battery passport is the digital identity of a battery, which includes information about its minerals and components and, ultimately, the battery itself. Everledger says it can provide transparency of the battery supply chain, as well as the lifecycle of the finished product.
To track the battery lifecycle, Everledger says it utilizes a range of technologies, including various types of auto identification, blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI). During manufacture, Ford batteries and their inner modules are tagged with 2-D data matrix codes, which are then scanned with a cell phone by each organization as the battery changes hands. Everledger says the scans allow otherwise separated links in the value chain to report on and access information about a battery’s location, chemistry and other attributes and activities taking place such as transportation, disassembly and recycling.
The battery passport concept was conceived and coordinated by Everledger and other industry experts as part of the Global Battery Alliance (GBA), which was founded in 2017 to create a sustainable and responsible battery value chain. Everledger says that improved lifecycle management and verified claims of recycling won’t just benefit large auto manufacturers, but also those that encounter the battery during its life, such as battery repair garages, auto recyclers, auction houses and dismantlers. The company says they will have more visibility to understand a battery’s chemistry and history in order to make faster and more informed decisions about how its contents can best be used, sold or recovered.
Everledger founder and CEO Leanne Kemp says, “The Everledger platform and its battery passport functionality positions stakeholders along the supply chain to verify a battery’s material provenance, chemistry and identity; and measure its sustainability and environmental impact alongside creating a multi-billion-dollar global market for used batteries that maximizes the recovery of raw materials and accelerates the development of climate-friendly mobility.”
Kemp adds, “A fully connected and transparent battery passport, secured by blockchain technology, allows electric vehicle manufacturers and owners to not only track and report the lifetime journey of each battery, but increasingly where those critical minerals originated and how those mines stack up with the use of renewable energy, enabling brands like Ford to more easily report on climate action and scope 3 emissions.”
The pilot comes ahead of new European battery regulation that will take effect later this year and into early 2023, requiring manufacturers to report on their extended producer responsibility for proper battery recycling. Everledger says that the pilot its conducting with Ford in the North American market, “demonstrates how combinations of advanced technologies can streamline regulatory compliance and add efficiencies across the value chain”.
Along with the benefits for auto manufacturers, the participating EV recyclers say they expect to gain process efficiencies from being able to simply scan the battery to get essential information, such as battery chemistry.
“Cirba Solutions has been the leader in providing traceability and transparency in battery recycling for decades,” Cirba Solutions President and CEO David Klanecky says. “We are pleased to support continued efforts to securely collect data-enhancing traceability across the entire battery supply chain.”
After six months of testing, Everledger says it will release the battery passport commercially.
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Source: Recycling Today
Everledger, Ford to launch EV battery passport pilot
<![CDATA[Digital transparency company Everledger, London, has announced that it will launch an electric vehicle (EV) battery passport pilot along with the Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan, to track the batteries throughout their lifecycle to ensure responsible management during their use, as well as end-of-life recycling.Everledger says the pilot will allow Ford to gain visibility on out-of-warranty batteries, validate responsible end-of-life recycling and gain access to data such as recycled critical minerals produced and associated carbon dioxide savings. The companies will use the battery passport solution to track batteries in various late and newer EV models for six months, working together with U.S.-based lithium-ion battery (LIB) processors Cirba Solutions, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Li-Cycle Corp., Toronto.The battery passport is the digital identity of a battery, which includes information about its minerals and components and, ultimately, the battery itself. Everledger says it can provide transparency of the battery supply chain, as well as the lifecycle of the finished product.To track the battery lifecycle, Everledger says it utilizes a range of technologies, including various types of auto identification, blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI). During manufacture, Ford batteries and their inner modules are tagged with 2-D data matrix codes, which are then scanned with…