Global Battery Alliance Launches World’s First Battery Passport Proof of Concept

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Was going to post this in the commodities thread then figured - nah, needs it;s own thread.

Global Battery Alliance Launches World’s First Battery Passport Proof of Concept​

The Global Battery Alliance (“GBA”), the world’s largest multi-stakeholder organisation to establish a sustainable battery value chain by 2030, today launched the proof of concept for its Battery Passport at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos.

The Battery Passport is key to facilitating the rapid scaling of sustainable, circular and responsible battery value chains to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement through electrification of the transport and power sectors. It has been developed over three years by the GBA’s members, who span the global battery value chain from the mine to recycling, including Audi, BASF, CATL, Eurasian Resources Group, Glencore, LG Energy Solution, Umicore, Tesla, Volkswagen AG, and IT solution providers as well as leading non-governmental and international organisations including IndustriALL Global Union, Pact, Transport & Environment, UNEP, UNICEF and many others, with the support of government institutions like the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, and Natural Resources Canada.

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That reads like a bunch of academic gobbledygook... I still don't understand why they need a battery passport and I even went to the link!
 
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For the first time, the GBA has unveiled the illustrative results of its Battery Passport proof of concept at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos. Publicly available on the Global Battery Alliance’s website, the prototype battery passports include example data from Audi and Tesla and their value chains partners relating to the battery’s technical specifications, material provenance, and reporting against key sustainability performance indicators (please note the disclaimer at the end of this release). This includes partial reporting of the battery’s carbon footprint, and child labour and human rights performance, according to rulebooks developed by members of the Global Battery Alliance for select materials, as well as information on the data collection across different steps of the value chains. By establishing this proof of concept, the Global Battery Alliance and its members are demonstrating how, by putting this data in the hands of end-users, the Passport will enable customers to make more informed purchasing decisions and drive sustainable sourcing, processing and manufacturing practices in the industry in the future.
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Looks like it's ultimately a marketing tool that will provide more transparency on the manufacturing process. I guess it might be the sort of thing that appeals to the "environmentally conscious" consumers that are apt to own electric vehicles?
 
it's to effect a supply chain of cradle to grave of their dangerous and unnecessary lithium products

it's a point where they're clamoring they need more adminstration that will ultimately train more of us to kiss their collective corporate asses as they will fire us if we say anything derogatory about any of them.....


slaves will be slaves....
 
The following puts the OP news in a new (to me) perspective - this is a trade issue related to rare earth metals:
U.S. and European officials are discussing how to set up a new group of allies that cooperate on procuring minerals used in clean-energy technologies, hoping to rely less on China while patching up a rift over U.S. subsidies for electric vehicles.

Under the plan to form a so-called critical-minerals club, the U.S. would negotiate trade agreements focused on such minerals with allies including Japan, the EU and U.K., according to people familiar with it. Once the allies have trade agreements between themselves, they would try to reach additional agreements with such countries as Ukraine or Zambia on securing supplies of raw materials essential to batteries and other clean- energy technologies, according to the people.

Supplies of critical minerals have been at the center of a spat between Washington and Brussels over the healthcare, tax and climate law known as the Inflation Reduction Act, which Congress passed last year. Top French and German officials, while in Washington last week, called for the formation of a critical-minerals club as they again raised concerns about the law, which passed Congress last year.

The law overhauled subsidies for electric vehicles, creating a series of new requirements for vehicles to qualify for the full $7,500 tax credit. One of those new rules is that 40% of the value of the minerals in a vehicle’s battery must come from the U.S. or a country with a free-trade agreement with the U.S. That percentage rises over time, hitting 80% after 2026.

Several U.S. allies, including the EU and Japan, don’t have free-trade agreements with the U.S., adding to their frustrations about the law’s approach to subsidies. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told The Wall Street Journal last month that those nations would need to negotiate new agreements to meet the law’s sourcing requirements.

Both U.S. and European officials view the creation of a critical-minerals club as a way to try to resolve some of the tensions over the law.
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but but but

if china has the largest in-ground lithium supply, and some experts have already clamored "there isn't enough lithium" to make the world electric, what's that gonna look like in a world with an even smaller supply?


and i've often wondered when the military will come out with their first Green EV Tank


pussies.....


just saying: even the generals and admirals know ev's suck
 
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