A sealed EU Battery Regulation battery category for light means of transport, weighing 25 kg or less and designed to provide electric power for wheeled vehicles powered by an electric motor or motor/battery combination.
LMT battery routes a physical battery into mobility-specific obligations. The category matters because a scooter, e-bike, or similar vehicle battery can trigger different producer-responsibility, performance, safety, and passport evidence paths from a portable or industrial battery.
EU Battery Regulation Article 3 defines LMT battery by sealing, weight threshold, and intended use in wheeled vehicles that can be powered by an electric motor or by a combination of motor and human power. The 25 kg threshold and transport-use condition should stay visible in implementation records.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries
a battery that is sealed, weighs 25 kg or less and is specifically designed to provide electric power for the traction of wheeled vehicles that can be powered by an electric motor alone or by a combination of motor and human power, including type-approved vehicles of category L within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (43), and that is not an electric vehicle battery;
Reference: Article 3, point 11
Reviewed public draft page. Aligns with EU battery classification and operations policy: separates regulated category assignment, producer-responsibility routing, waste-chain actor evidence, chemistry evidence, and collection/treatment obligations.
Battery Regulation obligations vary by category. LMT batteries are central to the passport rollout and product-information architecture: battery passport, QR/data-carrier, and category-specific labeling obligations apply, while carbon-footprint and due-diligence obligations do not map in the same way as for EV and industrial batteries.
Implementation records should capture category field, vehicle-type record, battery identifier, producer responsibility route, sealed status, declared weight, model/SKU, producer, placed-on-market date, and evidence supporting the LMT category assignment.
LMT battery is the mobility-category control connecting a physical battery, its vehicle context, and the obligations that follow from the regulated category. Category evidence should stay linked to the item/model record instead of being inferred from sales channel or customer type.