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Digital battery passport implementation in automotive

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Making the most of product traceability solutions

Building a sophisticated traceability solution can look like a daunting task. However, such initiatives can deliver strategic, tactical, and operational value.

Our new point of view addresses both challenges and opportunities. The report focuses on the topical example of digital battery passport (DBP) implementation in the European automotive industry. However, the ideas and approach presented can help with a wide range of traceability requirements across numerous industries and regions.

In Europe, DBPs will be mandatory from February 2027 in accordance with the EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR).

For the automotive industry, the impact of DBPs is considerable. The Regulation affects several relevant battery categories. What’s more, in some cases, the EU regulation gives automotive OEMs primary responsibility for creating, maintaining, and sharing the DBP.

This responsibility presents challenges such as:

  • Cooperation and coordination at industry level to create standards and rules, and at value chain level to enable transparency.
  • Management of static and dynamic data from across the value chain, assuring reliability, safety, confidentiality, and interoperability.
  • Selection of appropriate technology solutions, requiring appropriate “make or buy” choices plus an understanding of options like data spaces and blockchains.

Done right, DBP implementation promises rewards that go well beyond regulatory compliance. The resulting solutions can enhance many areas of the business, from R&D to supply chain. And those enhancements should in turn generate improvements to service offers, product performance, and automotive sustainability.

Ultimately, companies that succeed with traceability initiatives can more effectively meet the evolving expectations of consumers, and of society as a whole.

Read our point of view to discover how your DBP implementation (or other traceability initiative) can overcome the obstacles and maximize the returns.

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Meet our experts

Emmanuelle Bischoffe-Cluzel

VP – Sustainability Lead, Global Automotive Industry, Capgemini
Emmanuelle Bischoffe-Cluzel offers practical IT and engineering solutions to support automotive sustainability. She has 30 years’ automotive industry experience, gained with a global automaker and a tier 1 supplier, in roles ranging from manufacturing engineering to business development. She holds four patents relating to engine assembly.

Xavier de la Casa

Associate Director Sustainable Products and Services Frog, part of Capgemini Invent
I am a passionate senior whose leitmotiv is to aggregate multi-functional expertise to deliver the best-bespoke value for Users and Customers. Still a strong Mechanical Engineering expert after 17y @EADS, SAFRAN and Altran; I have acquired also intuitive skills to facilitate creativity workshops and agile methods from 5y @ Altran ID & frog design. This passion for new territories overflows also in my private life as I am designing fine jewelry for 10y now and spend a mouthful of time in photography and 3D movie making.

Dr. Dorothea Pohlmann

Senior Expert and Lead COE Sustainability, Capgemini Engineering
Dr. Dorothea Pohlmann, holds a doctorate in laser physics, started her career 15 years ago at Capgemini Engineering. Her path began in a subsidiary at the time in search of new challenges that combined her consultant expertise with her technical know-how. Today, she is a Senior Expert in the Technology & Innovation Office and Co-Lead of the “Center of Excellence Sustainability”.

Adèle Balog

Senior Consultant, Capgemini Invent France
Adèle is a Senior Consultant at Capgemini Invent France, specializing in climate and nature strategies. She brings expertise in decarbonization, ESG compliance, and more specifically, the Digital Battery Passport. She advises clients on regulatory compliance and understanding, IT architecture, and sustainability reporting, and actively contributes to related industry initiatives.

Liz Lugnier

Director and Head of Sustainability Portfolio Offer Management, Capgemini
As the director and Head of Sustainability Portfolio Offer Management, Liz Lugnier leads the end-to-end lifecycle and development of Capgemini’s sustainability offerings. With over 20 years of experience spanning strategy, analytics, and industry analyst relations, Liz specializes in transforming complex data into compelling narratives that drive business impact. Liz has served as host for several podcasts and is passionate about translating sustainability ambitions into actionable outcomes.

Laurence Noël

EVP, Head of Global Automotive Industry, Capgemini
Laurence Noël is a distinguished professional with a robust background in the automotive industry. She has more than 25 years of experience, and was previously Senior Vice President of the Circular Economy Business Unit at Stellantis. Leveraging a diverse background across management of business units, strategic planning and engineering, Laurence empowers clients to shape profitable and successful strategies, achieve transformation, and meet automotive sustainability goals.