Roland Gagel

Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) will become more and more relevant for the remarketing industry. While the market today is still distorted from governmental incentives, and buyers of new and used BEV might not yet represent an average of the buying communities, it is clear that BEV must perform as used cars to keep their residual values. One of the most important subjects is the trust into the status of health (SOH) of the battery. Different methods exist how to measure it, but none is the unique right or wrong. The CARA workgroup “Battery Health” has the goal to define an industry standard Battery Certificate and validate processes how to determine the battery health within standard vehicle return and remarketing processes. During the presentation, CARA will present the workgroups goal and plan for 2022. It will elaborate the openness to technologies to evaluate the SOH and the wish to define an universal battery pass standard for the industry.