ThisThe idempotent completion of you localization is Kahn and Sujatha's category of birational motives. The main references for itthe latter are https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~bruno.kahn/preprints/birat-tri-imrn-pre.pdf and section 5 of (the already published) https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6059. As a consequence of the general weight structure formalism, the Grothendieck group of this category is isomorphic to that$K^0$ of the (additive) heart of the Chow weight structure for it; the latter is the category $\operatorname{Chow}^o$ of birational Chow motives (as described by Kahn and Sujatha; you have to invert the characteristic $p$ of $k$ in the coefficient ring if $p>0$ to deduce this fact from Gabber's resolution of singularities). This means that the class of $C$ is that of its weight complex $\in K^b(\operatorname{Chow}^o)$$t(C)\in K^b(\operatorname{Chow}^o)$ (see Proposition 4.1.3(9) of our paper for a general concise description of properties of weight complexes and sections 3, 5, and 6 of my https://arxiv.org/pdf/0704.4003.pdf for more detail). Thus you can use any additive functor from birational Chow motives for your calculations;calculations (and compute the class of the corresponding complex that is certainly the alternated sum of classes of terms); this functor may be represented by a (birational) Chow motif. However, studying "classical" realizations (in particular, the "birational Hodge" one) seems to be reasonable also.