TREE NEWS update: China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology opened public consultation on draft interim rules for digital identity management of new-energy vehicle power batteries. The draft requires battery makers, NEV producers including importers selling domestically, battery-swap operators, vehicle repair firms, end-of-life vehicle recyclers and comprehensive utilization enterprises to submit traceability data to the national NEV power battery traceability platform under the interim measures on retired battery recycling and utilization.
China’s MIIT Seeks Public Comment on EV Battery Digital ID Rules
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The significance here is scope: the draft pulls importers, swap operators, repair shops and recyclers into one traceability regime, not just battery manufacturers, which suggests lifecycle accountability rather than a manufacturing-only mandate. That widens compliance exposure across the value chain, including foreign NEV sellers in China. Because this is a consultation-stage draft, the open questions are how reporting obligations get specified and whether the interim measures' platform becomes the single data channel.
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