Digital battery passports (DBPs) may support the transition towards more sustainable and circular electric vehicle battery (EVB) value chains by providing respective stakeholders with valuable data to support their sustainable battery management. To ensure such support DBPs have to fulfil EVB stakeholders’ data needs and requirements. This work sets out to provide first empirical insights in EVB value chain stakeholders’ data needs and requirements in the context of sustainable battery management based on a DBP concept comprising 54 data points and four information categories. The research design comprised focus group stakeholder workshops, expert interviews, follow-up expert consultation and subsequent qualitative content analyses. The results show diverging perspectives regarding data needs and availability, attributable to stakeholders’ different positions and roles in the value chain, and a lack of well-defined information flows along the EVB value chain. This contribution enhances the scares DBP research with the first systematic mapping of EVB value chain stakeholders’ data needs for pursuing a sustainable battery management. It further provides policy makers, and practitioners with guidance concerning information content of DBPs, supporting DBP development and implementation.

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