Consortium is Creating 'Passports' to Track Contents and Repair History of Europe's EV Batteries (news18.com) 30
Slashdot reader schwit1 shares this report from an automotive blog called The Truth About Cars:
A group of German automakers, chemical concerns, and battery producers have announced the joint development of a "battery passport" designed to help government regulators trace the history of the cells. The consortium is funded by the German government and is supposed to work in tandem with new battery regulations that are being prepared by the European Union.
According to the German economic ministry, officially the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, the overarching plan is for the EU to mandate traceable hardware be installed in all batteries used in the continent by 2026. Those intended for use in electric vehicles are up first, with the passport scheme also serving to chronicle everything from the vehicle's repair history to where the power cell's raw materials were sourced.
Reuters reports that batteries "could carry a QR code linking to an online database where EV owners, businesses or regulators could access information on the battery's composition." This digital tool should also make it easier to recycle raw materials inside batteries, the government statement said, which would cut dependence on foreign suppliers which control the vast majority of resources, like lithium and nickel, essential for battery production.
According to the German economic ministry, officially the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, the overarching plan is for the EU to mandate traceable hardware be installed in all batteries used in the continent by 2026. Those intended for use in electric vehicles are up first, with the passport scheme also serving to chronicle everything from the vehicle's repair history to where the power cell's raw materials were sourced.
Reuters reports that batteries "could carry a QR code linking to an online database where EV owners, businesses or regulators could access information on the battery's composition." This digital tool should also make it easier to recycle raw materials inside batteries, the government statement said, which would cut dependence on foreign suppliers which control the vast majority of resources, like lithium and nickel, essential for battery production.
At face value (Score:3)
used to lockout non dealer swaps and repairs (Score:3)
used to lockout non dealer swaps and repairs
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Unless they put circuitry and software to do DRM, that's not possible. Even if they do, at some point no matter how much circuitry or software there will always just be a positive and negative leading to a cell.
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You're not that important, seriously. The government already knows the VIN of the car.
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You're not that important, seriously.
When data collection and compute power is cheap enough, everyone is in fact that important to governments.
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Good point. Even if you aren't important now, its important to save all your data so if by some chance someone wants to investigate you in the future, they have a large amount of data to look at. Hopefully they come to the correct conclusions and don't just make up some wild tale of treachery like they did to Jose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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You're not that important, seriously.
If that was true they wouldn't bother to covertly collect personal data and cooperating with foreign governments to spy on everyone.
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Probably worse than that. The FBI agent that lives down the street can look up anything the NSA has on you. Lets not forget the FBI supported the fabricated by Hillary Clinton lies about Trump to get the FBI and later special counsel to launch an investigation. Based on a made up tale by Hillary, his political opponent.
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If you "read online tech publications like Linux Journal or BoingBoing" or TOR you are an extremist according to NSA
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Funny, I don't feel very extreme. All I do is I play with wires, pick up trash in the woods and play with the frogs.
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You're not important enough to spend money on
The battery pack having a QR code on it doesn't help anyone track you without physically inspecting the vehicle and scanning it
Odds are good that you won't even be able to scan it until it's been removed from the vehicle
What you're saying is true but irrelevant to this discussion
European bureaucracy at its best (Score:1)
Track and count every molecule
If you take a walk, we'll tax your feet...
QR code, really? (Score:4, Interesting)
batteries "could carry a QR code linking to an online database
How about a simple, probably smaller, serial number that people can enter into an online database?
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batteries "could carry a QR code linking to an online database
How about a simple, probably smaller, serial number that people can enter into an online database?
(Which I meant to include before pressing Submit instead of Continue Editing when distracted by the phone...sigh.)
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Perhaps they will put the number next to it. In any case we all carry around phones and those phones can have a QR scanner app, and looking at the URL (assuming they don't just put the code in the QR, and no URL at all) will generally tell you what you need to know in cases like these.
What I want is a stamped serial number. If it ain't stamped in metal, it's fucking worthless, because it won't be there by the time you need it.
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Meds. Don't skip them.
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Either is a bad idea. QR codes can be easily forged but it's equally easy to just stick a new S/N copied from an original component onto the part. You'd need some sort a PKI cryptographic signature for this to work without fail, but then we're entering the real of DRM.
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As long as the stickers can be peeled off easily, they can be applied to other units. Just offer a few cents per sticker to the third world kids recycling them. And they'll get returned before the batteries are thrown into the bonfire to recover precious metals.
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Counterfeit stickers coming from China in 3 2 1 ...
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Let's just wait a few weeks, they'll add blockchain to their idea.
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funniest thing I've heard all week..
UK has this for car chasis' already (Score:3)
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Frankly what makes the most sense is just to put the VIN on the battery pack for original packs. This covers battery info and also theft tracking. There's no need for a separate number. New packs can have a different numbering scheme that makes it obvious that they're not a VIN.
Which batteries are they talking about? (Score:3)