TVS Hosts BASE Project’s Second General Assembly in Manchester

On February 12-13, 2025, Technovative Solutions Ltd. (TVS) successfully hosted the Second General Assembly of the Battery Passport for Resilient Supply Chain and Implementation of Circular Economy (BASE) Project at the Hyatt Regency, Manchester, UK. The event gathered all consortium partners, including Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Beeplanet Factory SL, Adscensus MB, Parakeet BV, INND Batteries BV, Ford Otomotiv Sanayi A.S., Artech International, Corvus Energy AS, Mercedes-Benz Türk A.S., Seraph Consulting Limited, Rok Metals Sarl, Aspilsan Enerji Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S., Navtek Deniz Teknolojisi A.S., European Lithium Institute (eLi), Exitcom Recycling A.S., Fondation pour l’Institut des Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement (IHEID), SQM SA, Technovative Solutions Ltd, and University of Surrey, for two days of impactful discussions.

“All partners were actively engaged in the workshops and presentations, contributing valuable insights. They have proposed numerous recommendations essential for the effective implementation of solutions. Additionally, BASE consortium is planning to put forward several suggestions and recommendations to the European Commission to enhance the clarity of the battery regulation”, said Farhadur Arifin (Technovative Solutions Limited), Technical Manager, BASE Project, on partners’ active participation in the recent General Assembly and the overall project.

The General Assembly featured in-depth discussions on the project’s progress, including updates on functional and non-functional requirements of the Digital Battery Passport (DBP), reference architecture and ontology development, circularity aspects and methodologies for tracking battery lifecycle, use case presentations demonstrating the practical application of the DBP system, BASE’s long-term vision and strategic roadmap for sustainability, project management and risk assessment, and dissemination and communication.

“A frozen, optimised BASE platform and architecture design along with finalised BASE system specifications and KPIs are the major milestones in this time-frame.”- mentioned Farhadur Arifin, about the project progress.

In the BASE Project, TVS will formulate end-user problems, formalise functional/non-functional requirements of BASE solutions, support them with KPIs, study state-of-the-art data, define standards for data contributors, refine domain-specific ontologies, and build application-specific ontologies. TVS will also develop a distributed ledger technology (DLT)based federated data space for the entire battery value network, develop a portal, collect feedback from early adopters, and de-risk BASE development through systematic verification and continuous validation.

The consortium collaborated on nine work packages to support the European DPP initiative, focusing on transparency and sustainability. The BASE project aimed to redefine battery perception, production, and usage. Use cases included automotive (E-bus EV platform production for MARCEDES-BENZ and frugal EV platform production for FORD Motors), marine (electric tugboat production), and stationary (2nd-life electric energy storage production pilot).

The BASE project aims to develop and implement a Digital Battery Passport (DBP) service, as mandated by EU Regulation, to ensure transparent, secure, and cost-efficient platform operation. The project will develop transparent methodologies for battery performance and ESGE indicators, ensuring traceability at the Critical Raw Materials (CRM) level and promoting data interoperability. The DBP will provide accurate battery performance data, increasing battery service life and recycling efficiency, reducing waste and EU dependency on third countries.

To know more about the project: https://base-digibattpass.eu/

The BASE project has received funding from the Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON) Research and Innovation Actions under grant agreement No 101157200.