Why a QR code isn’t enough for the EU battery passport
From 18 February 2027 every EV, industrial and e-bike battery sold in the EU needs a digital passport and a QR code. This film shows why a printed QR can be copied, what a copy costs a battery brand, and how our Verify chip is designed to catch a copy.
- Reg. (EU) 2023/1542
- 18 Feb 2027
- QR + Verify chip
- Transcript
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From 18 February 2027 every EV, industrial and e-bike battery sold in the EU needs a digital passport and a QR code.
- A battery passport is required from 18 February 2027 for EV, LMT and industrial batteries over 2 kWh.
- Reg. (EU) 2023/1542, Art. 77
- Every battery needs a QR code that opens its passport.
- Art. 13(6)
- Fakes take about 1.8% of EU battery sales a year.
- EUIPO, 2018
- Up to a tenth of warranty spend goes to fraud.
- Warranty Week, 2019
- UK e-bike fires rose from 149 in 2022 to 520 in 2025.
- QBE via Insurance Business
- From 9 December 2026, EU product liability has no cap.
- Directive (EU) 2024/2853
What the film says
0:00The 18 February 2027 deadline
From 18 February 2027, every EV, industrial and e-bike battery sold in the EU needs a digital passport. Any passport keeps you legal. Ours protects your profit.
0:13What every battery needs
49 data points for an e-bike battery on day one, and a QR code on every pack. Whoever places the battery on the EU market owns the passport and registers it. Get it wrong in Germany, and it's up to €100,000 per offence. Then a recall.
0:29Why a printed QR can be copied
But a QR code is printed ink. Copy it onto a fake, and the fake opens your real passport. Even the EU standard for data carriers says a printed code has nothing inherent for security.
0:43What a copy costs you
That gap costs money. Fakes take 1.8% of EU battery sales. Up to a tenth of warranty spend goes to fraud. One battery fire averages about €200,000 in property damage. And from 9 December, EU product liability has no cap.
1:01The Verify chip: a new code on every tap
So we put a chip beside the QR. Our Verify chip answers every tap with a new one-time code, so any phone can flag a copied label. Tap before you pay a warranty claim. A pack that isn't yours gets flagged. And if the QR wears off, a tap still opens the passport. Tag, on the labelers you already run. Tap, with any phone. No app. Trust. Every change is a new, signed version.
1:26Done for you: the dashboard
And we do the work. Your suppliers fill in only what they owe. Every data point is tracked, numbered the way the Commission numbers them. Labels are approved and printed by batch, and each passport goes live as its label prints. Recalls find the exact pack.
1:43The chip pays for itself
Take a brand selling 15,000 batteries, €10 million a year. Fakes and fake claims cost it about €196,000 a year. A Verify chip on every battery costs €15,000. Stop 8% of that loss, and the chip has paid for itself.
2:01Pricing
Everything is included. The data, the labels, ten years of hosting, the registry file. Priced per battery, with no setup fee, and lower at volume. That's a chip on every battery, with nothing to build yourself.
2:17Who we are
We're a voting member of INCITS DPP, the US group shaping the global passport standard. A CIRPASS-2 stakeholder. A contributor to the UN Transparency Protocol. And we're registered in the US, the EU and the UAE.
2:32Live in four to eight weeks
Live in four to eight weeks. Start by 14 December. Book a 20-minute call at aeroz.io/audits. Aeroz. Battery passports, done for you.
Where the numbers come from
- Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 on batteries (EUR-Lex)
- § 60 BattDG, fines in Germany
- EUIPO: The economic cost of IPR infringement in the tyres and batteries sectors (2018)
- Warranty Week: warranty fraud (20 Jun 2019)
- Insurance Business: UK lithium-ion battery fires (QBE, Erie Insurance figures)
- DIHK: EU product liability extended