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Automotive & Transportation

Automotive & Transportation

Global Battery Alliance

In 2017, BASF co-founded the Global Battery Alliance (GBA) - a multi-stakeholder alliance that includes, major international companies from the automotive, technology, chemical and mining industries, as well as representatives of governments, academia, and civil society (NGOs). The GBA is working on a socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable and responsible circular battery economy. In the first phase, two critical parameters are in the focus: the social aspect of child-labor and the environmental aspect of greenhouse gas emissions.

Along the virgin material value chain, conscious and responsible action by the actors must solve ESG (environmental, social, governance) issues while building up a material pool, especially for new projects. In the long term, a stable state can only be achieved through a circular economy. Recycling at all stages will keep the pool of materials full and only losses need to be replaced.

As a flagship initiative, the Alliance is developing rulebooks for a “battery passport”, based on the digitalization of data. It is a digital twin of a battery that is supposed to provide data for a standardized sustainability assessment, which would ultimately be condensed into a "quality seal". This key instrument provides transparency to control success towards the strategic objective and to steer activities. It will show the performance of the battery regarding several sustainability criteria.

Primo piano dell’interno di una batteria EV, che mostra i fili arancioni che collegano e conducono l’elettricità attraverso una serie di diverse piastre metalliche.
Battery passport
Battery passport
The Battery Passport is a digital representation of a battery that conveys information about all applicable ESG and lifecycle requirements based on a comprehensive definition of a sustainable battery. Each Battery Passport will be a digital twin of its physical battery enabled by the digital Battery Passport platform, which offers a global solution for securely sharing information and data.
GHG rulebook
GHG rulebook
In October 2022 the GBA launches its greenhouse gas (GHG) rulebook for calculating and tracking the greenhouse gas footprint of lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles. The Rulebook is the first framework of its kind to facilitate the collection of standardised, auditable, and comparable GHG data for batteries.

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