New Battery Regulation —— Issue of Draft carbon footprint authorization bill
New Battery Regulation —— Issue of Draft carbon footprint authorization bill,
New Battery Regulation,
▍What is TISI Certification?
TISI is short for Thai Industrial Standards Institute, affiliating to Thailand Industry Department. TISI is responsible for formulating the domestic standards as well as participating in international standards formulation and supervising the products and qualified assessment procedure to ensure the standard compliance and recognition. TISI is a governmental authorized regulatory organization for compulsory certification in Thailand. It is also responsible for formation and management of standards, lab approval, personnel training and product registration. It is noted that there is no non-governmental compulsory certification body in Thailand.
There is voluntary and compulsory certification in Thailand. TISI logos (see Figures 1 and 2) are allowed to use when products meet the standards. For products that have not yet been standardized, TISI also implements product registration as a temporary means of certification.
▍Compulsory Certification Scope
The compulsory certification covers 107 categories, 10 fields, including: electrical equipment, accessories, medical equipment, construction materials, consumer goods, vehicles, PVC pipes, LPG gas containers and agricultural products. Products beyond this scope are fall within the voluntary certification scope. Battery is compulsory certification product in TISI certification.
Applied standard: TIS 2217-2548 (2005)
Applied batteries：Secondary cells and batteries(containing alkaline or other non-acid electrolytes – safety requirements for portable sealed secondary cells, and for batteries made from them, for use in portable applications)
License issuance authority: Thai Industrial Standards Institute
▍Why MCM?
● MCM cooperates with factory audit organizations, laboratory and TISI directly, capable to provide best certification solution for clients.
● MCM possesses 10 years abundant experience in battery industry, capable to provide professional technical support.
● MCM provides one-stop bundle service to help clients enter into multiple markets (not only Thailand included) successfully with simple procedure.
The European Commission has published a draft of two Delegated Regulations related to EU 2023/1542 (the New Battery Regulation), which are the calculation and declaration methods of the battery carbon footprint.
The New Battery Regulation sets out life-cycle carbon footprint requirements for different types of batteries, but the specific implementation was not published at the time. In response to the carbon footprint requirements for electric vehicle batteries that will be implemented in August 2025, the two bills clarify methods for calculating and verifying their life-cycle carbon footprint.
The two draft bills will have a one-month comment and feedback period from April 30, 2024 to May 28, 2024.
Requirements for carbon footprint calculation
The bill clarifies the rules for calculating carbon footprints, specifying functional unit, system boundary, and cut-off rules. This journal mainly explains the definition of functional unit and system boundary conditions．
Functional unit
Definition:The total amount of energy provided by the battery over the battery’s service life (Etotal), expressed in kWh.
Calculation formula:
Therein
a)Energy capacity is the useable energy capacity of the battery in kWh at the beginning of life,namely the energy available to the user when discharging a new fully charged battery until the discharge limit set by the battery management system.。
b)FEqC per year is the typical number of full equivalent charge-discharge cycles per year. For different types of vehicle batteries, the following values should be used.
