Case Study: EU Battery Digital Passport : Terms and Definitions

Link to Energy Battery Glossary: 110+ terms available on Github

We were invited by the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in South Korea to bring the Ontology Maker approach to the Future of Energy conference in Ulsan to facilitate multilingual conversations between companies, government and organisations.

We focused on the new EU regulation requiring all automotive batteries (ie. for vehicles, cars) to carry a ‘battery digital passport‘ and provide essential information about the battery materials, construction and environmental footprint.

We used our AI-enabled Ontology Maker product/service to create a multilingual glossary of terms working with terms and standards used in Korea, China, Japan and the Middle East and referencing the Battery Passport Data Model and Technical Document.

These 110+ terms in English, Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic support companies and organisations seeking to collaborate and deliver battery-related solutions to the EU. They are available on Github under Creative Commons license to support project and team collaboration.

Another aspect of the Ontology Maker process included comparing standards from different regions to help stakeholders see the connections between them (see below).

Energy battery standards in EU, Korean, China, Japan and the Middle East

Next steps

We are working with energy stakeholders and decision makers to assess how the energy glossaries supports their projects and teams across sectors and languages.

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