A grouping term for batteries that share compliance-relevant technical characteristics and a model identifier.
Battery model helps scale documentation across many physical units. The risk is treating model-level sameness as proof that every individual battery has the same condition, lifecycle history, or evidence completeness. Model is not the same as batch or item: it is a repeatable compliance class for model-level evidence.
Model-level terms should be used for stable technical characteristics and declarations, while dynamic condition, service history, state of health, and lifecycle status need lower-granularity records. The model is a useful evidence template, not the whole evidence chain.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries
a version of a battery all units of which share the same technical characteristics relevant for the requirements of this Regulation on sustainability, safety, labelling, marking and information, and the same model identifier;
Reference: Article 3, point 19
Reviewed public draft page. Aligns with high-priority battery section-role policy: plain working definition, concise source boundary, concrete implementation objects, and evidence-focused commentary.
Implementation records should capture model identifier, technical characteristics, covered units, version history, approval status, test report references, change control, linked batches/items, and the rules for when a design change creates a new model record.
Battery model is a scaling control for evidence architecture. It lets teams reuse stable declarations while keeping unit, batch, service, and condition evidence linked at the right granularity.
Useful but lower priority than battery passport and traceability.
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