autoMatPass: Solving the data gap across a vehicle’s life

Electric and sustainable mobility is redefining the automotive industry. But amid this progress lies a persistent blind spot; the lifecycle of a vehicle’s materials remains largely invisible. From raw materials to finished components, and through decades of use, the path of every element is fragmented, and by the time a car reaches the end of its life, its story has largely disappeared

autoMatPass is the project that brings those stories back to life.

Supported by EIT RawMaterials, it brings together people who believe that materials shouldn’t simply disappear at the end of life; they should continue to create value. By building a Consolidated Digital Product Passport (cDPP) for the entire PowerTrain of a Fiat 500e BEV, autoMatPass is quietly reshaping how Europe thinks about responsibility, circularity, traceability of materials including CRM (Critical Raw Material) and the future of mobility.

A vision born from urgency

The automotive sector is changing rapidly. New EU regulations demand digital traceability; manufacturers must prove ethical sourcing; recycling systems struggle with material losses; consumers expect sustainability, not promises.

Yet, within modern vehicles, especially electric ones, thousands of components move through global supply chains with almost no visibility. Metals disappear into landfills. Critical raw materials leave Europe’s borders forever. Recycling becomes guesswork.

autoMatPass emerged to change that narrative.

The Mission: Full traceability across the PowerTrain system of a car’s entire life

The project’s vision is ambitious: Give all the materials in the PowerTrain system of a car a digital life.

autoMatPass is developing a Consolidated Digital Product Passport (cDPP) for the PowerTrain system of Fiat 500e BEV, from the smallest sub-component to the complete powertrain. For the first time, Europe will have a unified model showing how the powertrain system of a car is designed, built, used, and ultimately recycled.

This isn’t just documentation. It’s transparency, circularity, and value recovery at an unprecedented scale.

Why Europe needs autoMatPass

The timing couldn’t be more critical. The project responds to:

1. New EU laws requiring detailed digital traceability (ESPR, CRM Act, The EU Battery Regulation (2023/1542) and the upcoming “REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on circularity requirements for vehicle design and on management of end-of-life vehicles, amending Regulations (EU) 2018/858 and 2019/1020 and repealing Directives 2000/53/EC and 2005/64/EC” published on 13 July 2023 which proposed a Circularity Vehicle Passport (CVP) initiative)
   
2. Pressure on OEMs to cut carbon and source responsibly
   
3. A rising need to recover and reuse CRMs instead of relying on imports
   
4. Growing market demand for honest sustainability

Right now, most vehicle materials go untracked. Recycling loses millions in recoverable CRMs. Companies struggle with compliance. Europe loses strategic resources.

autoMatPass steps in with a solution built for the future as a trusted digital infrastructure to keep every material in circulation.

Where DigiProd Pass comes In

At the heart of the consortium stands DigiProd Pass Ltd (DPPL), the technology and commercialisation engine powering autoMatPass.

DPPL is building:

• A cDPP platform with hierarchical traceability from sub-component to full PowerTrain system
  
• AI-driven tools for automated data capture and quality control
  
• A secure, Catena-X-compliant dataspace linking supply-chain and value-chain actors
  
• Integrated LCA metrics are embedded directly in each passport
  
• Market validation, business model design, and commercial scale-up
  
  

DPPL isn’t just supporting the project; it’s preparing to take the solution to market, ensuring that autoMatPass becomes a long-lasting European asset, not a one-off research effort.

The Impact: A new blueprint for Europe’s automotive future

autoMatPass isn’t about imagining change. It’s about building it.

The project will:

• Improve recycling efficiency and recover valuable components
  
• Reduce Europe’s dependency on imported critical raw materials (CRMs)
  
• Simplify compliance and audit processes for OEMs and suppliers
  
• Accelerate low-carbon, circular manufacturing
  
• Create new digital skills, jobs, and innovation opportunities
  
• Support the EU Green Deal and Net-Zero ambitions
  
  

By deploying cDPP in a real electric vehicle and validating it with multiple industry partners, autoMatPass becomes more than a project.
It becomes a repeatable model for Europe and the world.

• A model where every vehicle material has a past, a present, and a future.
• A model where sustainability isn’t claimed, it’s verified.
• A model where circularity isn’t theoretical, it’s practical.

autoMatPass: Building the future, one material at a time

In the story of Europe’s transition to a sustainable automotive ecosystem, autoMatPass is the turning point, a moment where the industry stops losing value and starts regenerating it.

And with the combined strength of EIT RawMaterials, DPPL, and leading automotive partners, this transformation is no longer a distant ideal. It’s already in motion.

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