Battery Categories: EV, Industrial, and LMT

EU Digital Passport Processor™ organises passports by battery category. The category you select when creating a passport determines the required Annex XIII fields, the compliance deadline, and the data schema.

The three in-scope categories

EV Battery — Traction batteries designed for the propulsion of electric vehicles. This is the broadest category and has the most Annex XIII fields. Compliance deadline: 18 February 2027.

Industrial Battery — Batteries designed for industrial applications including stationary energy storage (SBESS), UPS systems, and grid-scale batteries. Compliance deadline: 18 August 2027.

LMT Battery — Batteries for light means of transport: e-bikes, e-scooters, e-mopeds, and e-cargo bikes. Any battery-powered light vehicle under 25mph / 45km/h. No capacity threshold applies — every LMT battery requires a passport regardless of size. Compliance deadline: 18 February 2027.

Selecting the category in EU Digital Passport Processor™

When you create a new passport, Step 1 of the wizard asks you to select the battery type. You will see three cards: EV Battery, Industrial Battery, and LMT Battery. Each card shows the compliance deadline and a description.

LMT passports default to item level — one passport per individual battery unit. This supports EPR tracking and second-life use cases. You can change the passport level in Step 2 if needed.

Carbon footprint and LMT batteries

Carbon footprint declaration is required for EV and Industrial batteries. For LMT batteries, the carbon footprint declaration becomes mandatory from 18 August 2028 (or 18 months after the relevant delegated act is published, whichever is later).

In EU Digital Passport Processor™, carbon footprint fields on LMT passports show an amber Required from 18 Aug 2028 tag instead of the usual Required tag. You can fill them in now if you have the data, but they are not required to activate the passport.

Which category has more fields?

EV batteries have the most extensive Annex XIII requirements. Industrial and LMT batteries share the same schema but the carbon footprint fields are not required at activation for LMT.

The exact field requirements for each category are documented in the Annex XIII field reference articles.