Battery passports for the batteries you place on the EU market

• The public

  Anyone who scans the QR code: what the battery is, who made it, its carbon footprint, its recycled content. No account, no app.

• People with a legitimate interest

  Repairers, recyclers, second-life operators: dismantling and safety information, the detailed composition, and the battery’s own data. You give access to a person’s email address, and they sign in to read.

• Authorities

  Notified bodies, market surveillance authorities and the Commission: what the regulation keeps for them, such as test reports. They get access the same way.

What a visitor may not see is never sent to their browser. Your own team sees everything.

• In the EU

  Our server and its database are in Germany. Backups are encrypted before they leave the server, and they are kept in the EU.

• Backed up all the time

  The database is backed up continuously, with a further backup every night.

• Your team, with roles

  Admins, editors and viewers. People join by invitation, sent to the email address you name.

• A careful sign-in

  An account needs a verified email address. An authenticator app is there for everyone who wants a second step.

What is a battery passport?

An electronic record for one battery, required by Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 (Article 77). It holds information about the battery model and about the individual battery, and people reach it through a QR code on the battery. Part of it is public. Part is only for authorities, or for people with a legitimate interest such as repairers and recyclers.

Who needs a battery passport, and from when?

From 18 February 2027, each battery for light means of transport (LMT), each industrial battery with a capacity greater than 2 kWh and each electric vehicle battery that is placed on the EU market or put into service. The economic operator that places the battery on the market must keep the passport accurate, complete and up to date, and may authorise another operator in writing to act on its behalf.

What does Dippia do?

Dippia is a web application where manufacturers, importers and other economic operators create battery passports, keep them up to date through each battery’s life, and publish the page that the QR code on the battery leads to.

Who can see what is in a passport?

The regulation sets three levels (Annex XIII): information for everyone, information for people with a legitimate interest, and information for notified bodies, market surveillance authorities and the Commission. Anyone who scans the QR code sees the public part. For the rest, an admin of your team gives access to a named email address, and that person signs in to read it.

Where is our data kept?

On our server in Germany. The database is backed up continuously. Backups are encrypted before they leave the server and are kept in the EU.

What happens when a battery is repaired, sold on, reused or recycled?

You record the event and the passport follows. A repair or a change of owner is added to the battery’s history. A battery that is repurposed, re-used or remanufactured gets a new passport linked to the first one. After recycling the passport ceases to exist, as the regulation says, and its public address says so.

Can we bring in our batteries from a spreadsheet?

Yes, as CSV files of up to 2000 rows. We check the whole file first and show you what we found, by line and column. Nothing is saved until you confirm, and then every row is written or none.

Does Dippia register passports in the EU’s registry?

Not yet. Registering passports in the EU’s digital product passport registry is planned and is not available today.

What can Dippia not do yet?

Planned, and not available today: registering passports in the EU’s digital product passport registry; an API for your own systems; the other official EU languages, and Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese; passports on your own domain; keeping passports reachable without us, with an export you can take away. Documents such as a declaration of conformity are links today, because we do not store files yet. The application is in English, Français and no other language yet; this site is in English only.

What happens to our passports if Dippia stops?

The regulation asks that a passport remains available even after the company responsible for it has ceased to exist (Article 78), so it must not depend on us either. What we have today: a passport’s address holds only the battery’s ID, so the addresses can move to another host, and the backups are kept away from the server. What we have not built yet: an export you can take away, and a way to keep passports reachable without us. Both are planned.

What does Dippia cost?

We have not published prices yet.

How do we start?

Create an account with your email address and name your company. Then add a battery model and one battery: the first page you see takes you through it, step by step. Your colleagues join by invitation.