Guidelines for the EU's Battery Regulation

How to meet the requirements of the battery regulation

The Battery Regulation places many requirements on an organization that manufacture or sell batteries. Many of these requirements imply new technology to be developed, new tests need to be carried out and new and revised information needs to be produced. RISE has different roles in this transition, and is building up both test facilities, analysis tools, internal collaboration networks and competence to help businesses and society to cope with the transition as efficiently as possible. As part of this, we offer different routes into the Battery Regulation and its parts, so that your organizations and your staff can prepare and make your own strategic choices going forward.

Meet your organization's needs at the right time, at the right level

The battery regulation is complete, but there are many steps on the way to implementing the regulation that are not yet complete:

• The standards for digital product passports are evolving. RISE participates in this work and can assist companies with the latest development direction and where the discussions are going.
• Product-specific rules for carbon footprints are under public review and will soon be ready. RISE has experience in performing life cycle analyzes on batteries.
• Battery performance and quality is difficult to measure reliably and there are also a variety of ways to measure it, but there is no standard in the field. RISE has deep knowledge here on several fronts and offers both expertise and participation on the way towards coordination in the field.
• When you read the Battery Regulation, it is easy to get lost in technical areas where you yourself lack expertise and because of uncertain interpretations that make it difficult to know for sure what the requirements really are. We provide study groups.
• A total industrial transformation, which includes a circular economy for batteries, from material selection and technology design, correct handling of batteries regardless of situation, and not least efficient and quality-assured scaling up of all steps in circular production requires a large application and development of new standards.

RISE offers support in all these areas.

What you as customer gets:

Start the journey towards digital product passports

Start with a workshop where key people from different parts of the company learn what will be required within the next few years. Follow up later with various expert contacts and certification needs

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Contact: Raul Carlsson

Carry out climate footprints according to EU regulations

Continue with life cycle analyzes and adapt data bases, documentation, calculations and review according to the requirements of EU's battery regulation.

Contact: Emanuel Bengtsson

The path to reliable battery performance measures

The function of the Battery Management System (BMS) is not standardized today. For electric vehicle applications, most vehicle manufacturers want to manufacture their own BMSs to control IP. Overall requirements as far as capacity measures for batteries in passenger cars, and in the future also category 2 vehicles, are described in GTR22 in its current application form. For all other battery applications, e.g. stationary battery storage, work machines, ships, etc., an overall application-specific requirement such as capacity and power degradation is missing.

RISE can assist with the development of application-required parameters, basic requirements (environmental parameters, cycling parameters and operating cases), development of algorithms for SOC and SOH for specific applications or verification of existing algorithms.

Contacts:

Electronics - Environment reliability: Christian Hafström

Battery analysis – Energy conversion: Christian Casanova

Electromobility, overall: Björn Löfving

Study group on the EU's Battery Regulation

The EU's Battery Regulation consists of 96 articles and 15 appendices, and it can both take time and be difficult to absorb what is written in the regulation on your own. There are many of us in Sweden who need to both understand and implement the regulation, and RISE is therefore conducting a competence-enhancing study circle where we, participants from institutes, companies and the public, read and discuss what the regulation entails. We will meet during 5-7 digital meetings in the fall of 2024.

Contact: Cecilia Wästerlid

Standards for circular battery conversion

There are many paths to a circular battery transition, and which standards are most beneficial at each step and along each path depends on your role in the life cycle of the battery and battery resources. We build up standard maps based on different parts of battery management's many perspectives.

Contact: Raul Carlsson