wouter

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A forward-thinking innovator Highlights and track record
Selected work
Tracking cobalt from Congo to Tesla Improving waste recycling in Brazil Better luggage handling at airports
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The world’s first Battery Passport
In collaboration with the Global Battery Alliance, we developed and piloted the world's first Battery Passport. It included the battery's carbon footprint and material origins. The passport was showcased at the WEF to demonstrate the positive impact of supply chain collaboration.
Project details
For the GBA
In collab w/ ReSource
2023
At Kryha
My role
Product director
System designer
My contribution
Concept design
System design
Design direction
Pilot coordination
There will be 350 million EVs by 2030. Battery Passports should ensure their sustainably and help with recycling.
Scanning a battery’s QR-code opens its passport, including sustainability performance, material provenance and technical details.
The passport data around material provenance was collected using the ReSource platform, in this case for cobalt only.
The passport and pilot results were presented at World Economic Forum in Davos.
The project context
The Global Battery Alliance mobilises to ensure that battery production not only supports green energy, but also safeguards human rights and promotes health and environmental sustainability. Central to their mission are battery passports. In response to forthcoming EU regulations, the GBA aimed to issue the world's first battery passport. Together with ReSource we were uniquely equipped to design, develop, and issue this passport for Tesla and Audi.
The process and results
Facing tight deadlines for the World Economic Forum conference, we worked in close collaboration with the GBA to create a system tailored to their requirements. We rapidly developed prototype designs to ensure alignment among all stakeholders. Through this process, we successfully designed and executed a pilot, gathering the essential data from the entire supply chain needed to issue a first passport.
The product
A digital product passport that includes real data about a single EV battery, powered by backend tooling for supply chain members to gather data.
Why I liked this project
The combination of impossible timelines and different agendas, while turning a vague vision into something tangible, lead to one of my most rewarding projects ever.