This week, blockchain company Everledger announced the launch of a battery passport pilot in partnership with Ford. The battery passport will use technologies including auto ID, blockchain and artificial intelligence to support the responsible recycling of electric vehicle (EV) batteries.
Studies indicate that while no greenhouse gas emissions come directly from EVs, energy is still used to manufacture the vehicle, and in particular, the battery. Thus, the climate benefit of EVs will depend on the sustainable manufacturing and management of batteries.
Working together with US lithium-ion battery recyclers Cirba Solutions and Li-Cycle, Everledger and Ford will use the battery passport solution to track batteries in new and older EV models. Part of the pilot may have been funded through a phase 1 funding round awarded by the US Department of Energy to Everledger in 2020 for providing battery identities. This pilot will run for six months, and thereafter the battery passport will be released commercially.
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