Automotive Industry

The EU Battery Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 creates detailed sustainability, carbon-footprint, recycled-content, due-diligence and information requirements for batteries. From 18 February 2027, EV batteries, LMT batteries and industrial batteries above 2 kWh must have an electronic battery passport. In July 2026 the EU also adopted Regulation (EU) 2026/1738 on circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles. The new framework introduces stronger design-for-circularity and producer-responsibility requirements and phases in recycled-plastic targets for new vehicles. CBAM is also relevant indirectly because steel and aluminium are covered sectors, affecting cost and embedded-emissions data across automotive supply chains.

Priority work therefore includes battery and component PCFs, full vehicle LCA, supplier Scope 3 data, recycled-content verification, circular design, material traceability and end-of-life scenarios. Electrification choices should be evaluated with use-phase electricity mixes, battery lifetime and replacement assumptions, charging losses and recycling pathways. For suppliers, customer-specific carbon-data requirements are becoming a commercial requirement as OEMs build more granular product-level emissions systems.

Metsims can support OEMs and automotive suppliers with vehicle and component LCA, battery Product Carbon Footprint, full life-cycle modelling, Scope 3 inventories, supplier engagement and decarbonisation roadmaps. Battery studies can align data structures with Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 requirements and prepare companies for battery-passport information needs. Material and technology scenarios can compare recycled metals, polymers, battery chemistries, lightweighting, energy sourcing and end-of-life routes.

For wider regulatory readiness, Metsims can map the new vehicle-circularity requirements and CBAM-related embedded-emissions data that affect key inputs. Digital product-data structures can be designed so that LCA, PCF, supplier and regulatory datasets are not recreated separately. This enables companies to use one controlled sustainability-data architecture for customer requests, R&D, compliance and carbon reduction.

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