VINvoice Vehicle data in EU e-invoices

DraftDraft for review, not yet a published standard. Registry vehicle/1.0-draft of 2026-10-24, marker vehicle/1.0. How changes are made.

vehicle.energySourceCode

Fuel or power source · Kraftstoffart oder Energiequelle

Fuel or power source the vehicle is approved for, one row per source, in the order the registration document (P.3) or CoC (item 26) lists them. A blend or renewable variant used under an approved fuel type (E10, B7, paraffinic diesel) is reported as that fuel type. cng and lng: natural gas or biomethane stored compressed or liquefied (CoC 26 'NG - Biomethane'). electricity: electric energy from an external source (pure electric and off-vehicle charging vehicles). The hybrid architecture goes into vehicle.powertrainTypeCode; the fuel mode of CoC item 26.1 is not part of 1.0.

Key
vehicle.energySourceCode
Row name (BT-160)
Kraftstoffart oder Energiequelle [vehicle.energySourceCode]
Fuel or power source [vehicle.energySourceCode]

The bare key vehicle.energySourceCode is also accepted.

Tier
Recommended
Status
draft
Representation term
Code
Value format
one token from VEHICLE-ENERGY-SOURCE 1.0 per row; repeatable; rows in source-document order
Grammar
^(petrol|diesel|lpg|cng|lng|ethanol|biodiesel|hydrogen|electricity|other)$
Unit
none
Code list

VEHICLE-ENERGY-SOURCE 1.0

  • petrol
  • diesel
  • lpg
  • cng
  • lng
  • ethanol
  • biodiesel
  • hydrogen
  • electricity
  • other
Required when
SHOULD for motor vehicles on supply and trade-in
Statutory feature
No
Repeatable
Yes, one row per value
Anchors
  • Directive 1999/37/EC code P.3 'type of fuel or power source' (DE 'Kraftstoffart oder Energiequelle')
  • Reg. (EU) 2020/683 Annex VIII CoC items 23, 26 and 26.1
  • Reg. (EU) 2023/1804 (AFIR) Art. 2(4) 'alternative fuels' (electricity, hydrogen, CNG, LNG, LPG, biofuels, synthetic and paraffinic fuels), which replaced Directive 2014/94/EU
  • IVI 2.0 EnergySource (published mapping only)
  • informative: schema.org fuelType
Carrier and binding
BG-32: BT-160 'Kraftstoffart oder Energiequelle [vehicle.energySourceCode]', BT-161 'diesel' (repeatable: one row per source, in source-document order)
Values in the test corpus
  • diesel
  • petrol
Crosswalk (informative)

schema.org fuelType; IVI 2.0 EnergySource (10 petrol, 20 diesel, 30 LPG, 40 CNG, 44 biomethane, 50 hydrogen, 60 LNG, 95 electricity, 90 other; licence of the IVI list unverified)

informative; names and IRIs of third-party works, CC BY 4.0, sources stated; VDA 4938: reprint with source

Source and changes
registry/keys/energySourceCode.yaml · Propose a change