COPYRIGHT
& CREDITS.
Original work, open data and third-party material each retain their own rights.
Original site content
© 2026 Afseth Millar. Copyright in original editorial text, site design and original code is reserved where applicable. This notice does not claim ownership of third-party data, publications, standards, software, names or marks, or restrict reuse permitted by their licences.
Illustration
The battery-cell hero and original concept artwork were generated with AI for this prototype. Maps, charts and table patterns within the hero are illustrative, not evidence figures. No exclusive copyright claim is made over the AI-generated elements.
Research and map data
Bibliographic metadata: OpenAlex, made available under CC0. Rankings, calculations and visualisations are prepared by Battery Observer. Rights in the underlying scholarly publications remain with their respective rights holders; this site does not reproduce their full texts.
Geographic boundaries: Natural Earth public-domain data, distributed in TopoJSON form through world-atlas. See the world-atlas software notice below.
Applications and end of life
IEA (2026), Global EV Outlook 2026, IEA, Paris. © IEA. Report content used here is licensed under CC BY 4.0, subject to the IEA terms. Battery Observer has adapted the presentation, selected figures and prepared its own graphics. These adaptations do not imply IEA endorsement. The report licence does not extend to third-party material, logos, photographs or separately licensed datasets.
End-of-life figures: Eurostat, env_wasbat, 2023 reporting year, via the supplied research extract. © European Union. Battery Observer selected the reporting subset and calculated the displayed shares. Eurostat is not responsible for these calculations or interpretations. Eurostat copyright and reuse information. The site's evidence notes describe the extract's verification limits.
Regulation and commercial sources
EU regulatory sources are credited to the European Union, with links to EUR-Lex and the Council beside the analysis. Other legislation, company announcements and standards remain attributable to their respective publishers and rights holders. Source links identify the evidence; they do not grant a licence to reproduce the linked material. No endorsement by a source organisation is implied.
Software licences
Original copyright and permission notices are preserved in full:
- D3 7.9.0 — Copyright 2010–2023 Mike Bostock. ISC licence notice.
- TopoJSON Client 3.1.0 — Copyright 2012–2019 Michael Bostock. ISC licence notice.
- World Atlas 2.0.2 — Copyright 2013–2019 Michael Bostock. ISC licence notice.
Typography
Barlow Condensed, DM Sans and IBM Plex Mono are served through Google Fonts. Their SIL Open Font License notices and original copyright statements are available here: Barlow Condensed, DM Sans, IBM Plex Mono.
Notices reviewed 12 October 2026. The applicable third-party licence takes precedence over the site's general copyright notice.