EV Battery Marking

What Does “Indelible” Actually Mean Under the EU Battery Regulation?

It is one word. Four syllables. And right now it is keeping compliance managers, production engineers and regulatory teams at battery manufacturers across Europe up at night, Battery Marking is about to become more complex. Indelible. The Cambridge English Dictionary defines Indelible as "An indelible mark or substance is impossible to remove " Article 13(7) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 states...

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Battery Cell Serialization: Why Marking at Cell Level Is Now Standard Practice

For most of the past decade, traceability in battery manufacturing stopped at the pack. A unique identifier on the outer housing was enough to satisfy quality systems and recall requirements. The individual cells inside were treated as interchangeable, identified only by batch, not by unit. That approach will not satisfy the...

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