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Digital Product Passports for bikes

Give every bike a passport that carries its specs, service history, battery data and ownership in one scan, in your brand’s own style, on the frame for life. The Battery Regulation brings the battery passport to e-bikes from 18 February 2027.

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A passport that stays on the frame for life

A Digital Product Passport for bikes is built from the product data in your ERP and PLM and the battery and component data Trace collects from suppliers. It stays on the frame for life: registration, warranty, service history and ownership in one scan. From 18 February 2027 the e-bike battery carries its own digital battery passport behind the same code, under the EU Battery Regulation.

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Which rules hit your bikes collection, and when

EU battery passport under the Battery Regulation, 18 February 2027

Chemistry, capacity, carbon footprint and origin per battery, behind a QR code, with the cell and pack data from the supplier.

ESPR, by product group

Tyres, steel and aluminium are in the first working plan; a bikes act follows with its own field list.

EUDR for natural rubber, 30 December 2026

Plot-level origin and a due diligence statement for tyres and grips made from natural rubber.

Every rule we track →

The digital battery passport is already law. Your e-bikes carry it in 2027.

Battery passports, required

From 18 February 2027, e-bike batteries must carry a battery passport behind a QR code. Trace collects the supply-chain data that feeds it.

A passport that rides along

Registration, warranty and service history live on the frame, and Lost & Found reunites bikes with their owners.

One data set, every obligation

The battery and supplier data you collect for 2027 becomes your full bike passport when ESPR reaches the category.

What the Battery Regulation asks for →

From product data to scannable bike

What launching takes, in three steps.

Connect your data

Your ERP, PIM or PLM plugs in, or start from a spreadsheet. Trace collects what only your suppliers know, down to the battery cells.

How Trace works →

Passports build themselves

Every model gets a standards-compliant passport in your brand’s design, with GS1 Digital Link QR codes.

How Passport Builder works →

Tag and go live

Codes go onto frame stickers, laser-etched plates or head-tube NFC through your existing assembly workflow, and every scan starts reporting back.

What the bikes passport has to carry

Brand passports at scale

Publishing: Passport Builder turns the data into a branded passport for every model.

Supply chain traceability

Battery and supplier data: Trace collects it per purchase order, tier by tier, with the certificate attached.

Integrated warranty

Warranty fields: registration and warranty live on the frame, one scan away.

Lost and found

Ownership: a finder scans, the owner is notified, the bike comes home.

GS1 digital IDs

Identifier: a GS1 GTIN per model, resolved through GS1 Digital Link, so any scanner reads it.

Customisable pages

Brand fields: white-labelled pages on your domain, multi-brand where one company runs several.

Bike passport questions, answered

Does Tappr provide the battery passport e-bikes need in 2027?

The battery passport’s exact technical requirements are being finalised under the EU Battery Regulation, so no vendor can claim final compliance today. What Tappr does is build your product passports on the standards the battery passport draws on, QR data carriers, structured machine-readable data and unique identifiers, and collect the battery supply-chain data through Trace, so the passport you launch now evolves with the requirements rather than being rebuilt for them.

Does a Tappr passport meet the EU’s ESPR requirements for bikes?

Bikes are not in the first wave of ESPR passport categories, their rules come later in the working plan, so there is nothing final to comply with yet. The e-bike battery passport arrives first, in February 2027, and the data you structure for it becomes your full bike passport when ESPR reaches the category.

What product data do I need before I can launch?

Less than you’d think to start: your product master data, model, components, specs and origin, which usually lives in your ERP, PIM or a spreadsheet. Richer fields like battery and supply-chain evidence come after launch, collected from your suppliers through Trace, so you go live on what you have and deepen the passport over time.

How does the passport get onto the bike?

As a QR code on a frame sticker or laser-etched plate, or an NFC tag in the head tube. Codes follow GS1 Digital Link, and printing runs through your existing workflow: Tappr’s in-plant printing works with NiceLabel and BarTender.

Can I run several brands from one account?

Yes. Tappr supports multi-brand setups with full white labelling: each brand keeps its own design and guidelines while your team manages everything in one place.

See it on one of your own models

In 30 minutes, bring one model and its battery supplier. We show the passport it becomes, what the 2027 battery passport still needs and how the code reaches the frame.

You’ll talk to Bas, Delia or Anna, who prepare battery passport data with bike brands.

30 minutes
One model and its battery supplier
You see the passport, the battery gaps and the frame path

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