EUROBAT Position: Carbon Footprint Declaration for EV Batteries

EUROBAT, the Association of Manufacturers of Automotive and Industrial Batteries, welcomes the upcoming ‎adoption of a methodology for determining the carbon footprint of electric vehicles. EUROBAT maintains its ‎support for the introduction of a carbon footprint declaration, performance classes and maximum thresholds to ‎promote green batteries made in Europe. ‎

Nonetheless, EUROBAT considers that several elements of the proposed format of the carbon footprint ‎declaration need to be amended to ensure that it can be applied in practice and its enforcement properly ‎monitored by notified bodies, and that it properly reflects the climate impact and benefits of the battery value ‎chain, also in line with our proposed changes to the draft delegated act on the methodology, as laid out in the attached position paper.