A regulatory term referring to a battery that is specifically designed to provide electric power for traction in hybrid or electric vehicles of categor.
Electric vehicle battery is part of the formal vocabulary used in battery regulation, battery passports, producer obligations, and EV or industrial battery compliance. For this glossary, the key point is understanding how the source defines the term and where that definition sits within broader compliance or data requirements.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries
a battery that is specifically designed to provide electric power for traction in hybrid or electric vehicles of category L as provided for in Regulation (EU) No 168/2013, that weighs more than 25 kg, or a battery that is specifically designed to provide electric power for traction in hybrid or electric vehicles of categories M, N or O as provided for in Regulation (EU) 2018/858;
Reference: Article 3, point 14
In practice, this term matters when translating official-source language into product, battery, supply-chain, or compliance data models used in battery regulation, battery passports, producer obligations, and EV or industrial battery compliance.
For Minespider, electric vehicle battery is useful when turning dense legal text into a clearer operational vocabulary that can be linked to traceability, product data, and compliance workflows.