BERLIN : The consortium behind a European battery passport project laid out on Monday how companies must prepare to meet increasingly stringent regulations on disclosing batteries' origins and social and environmental footprints. Manufacturers in Europe must disclose the carbon footprint of their batterie
BERLIN : The consortium behind a European battery passport project laid out on Monday how companies must prepare to meet increasingly stringent regulations on disclosing batteries' origins and social and environmental footprints.
Monday's guidance is the first attempt to interpret what the new demands will mean for electric car makers, industrial battery producers and light transport battery makers. Still up for debate is the methodology for accurately calculating the carbon footprint and recycled content, and who will have access to what depth of data in the battery passport, consortium representatives told Reuters.
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