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All new electric cars in the European Union will be required to be sold with a ‘battery passport’ from 2027, providing information about where the materials used to make the power pack come from – but the unique system won’t be adopted in Australia just yet.From February 2027, the European Union will require all industrial or electric vehicle batteries with a capacity of more than 2kWh to have its own ‘passport’, which will be linked to the vehicle identification number (VIN) of the car.When scanned with a QR code-reading device, the passport will show information about who produced the battery or handled its materials, all the way from the mines to being connected in the car – putting greater responsibility on manufacturers to have transparent supply chains.