Some Weird Things Are Happening And The Grid May Never Be The Same
New battery storage techniques are about to change the cost and availability of renewable energy on the utility grid.
Redwood Materials
The EV battery recycler Redwood Materials has expanded into the large scale energy storage market, just in time to catch the coattails of the AI boom (courtesy of Eclipse via Redwood).
JB Straubel’s Bet On EV Battery Recycling Is Paying Off, Bigly
The EV battery recycler Redwood Materials has expanded into the large-scale energy storage market, just in time to catch the coattails of the AI boom.
GM Is Now Taking Aim At Tesla’s Energy Storage Business, Too
In a page torn out of the book of Tesla, GM has embarked on a new utility-scale stationary energy storage collaboration with the US EV battery recycling firm and cathode manufacturer Redwood Materials.
A not-so-farmiliar household name has assembled $4 billion in private and public funding for EV battery recycling (shown here: proposed South Carolina campus courtesy of Redwood Materials).
Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries Offers Benefits Over Mining Virgin Metals
Recycling lithium-ion batteries is the way to go, according to a new Stanford University lifecycle analysis published in Nature Communications. That’s because recovering the critical metals from used lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has significantly lower environmental impacts than does mining virgin metals. Recycling critical materials in end-of-life LIBs can help alleviate … [continued]
BMW To Get Battery Recycling Support From JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials
Maybe once upon a time, concern about what happened to EV batteries at end of life was legit. However, it was quickly apparent that the vast majority of an old battery could still be useful if recycled, and that those materials are highly valuable. About 95% (or even more) of … [continued]
Redwood Partners with Ultium Cells
At Redwood, our process involves sourcing end-of-life batteries and production scrap as well as raw materials and then recycling, refining, and remanufacturing these feedstocks into critical battery materials for North American cell manufacturers at gigafactory-scale. Redwood is now working with Ultium Cells LLC—the joint battery cell manufacturing venture between General … [continued]
Redwood Materials Has Good News About Electric Cars
Redwood Materials is at the leading edge of a US-based supply chain for battery materials for electric vehicles.
Redwood Materials Building Huge Cathode Factory In USA
USA has not been the home of much of the world’s EV battery or battery component production. That has been dominated by China. The Inflation Reduction Act is changing that. Subsidies for mining EV battery minerals, subsidies for processing those minerals, subsidies for battery cell production, and subsidies for battery … [continued]
Redwood Materials Helps To Recycle Kaua’i’s Stationary Energy Storage Systems
In every tech transition, there are innovative leaders who bring the first products and projects to market. While those are cutting edge when they come out, after a few years, they are clearly out of date. The growth and evolution of grid-scale batteries has gotten to the point where it’s … [continued]
Redwood Materials Raises Over $1 Billion
Tesla co-founder and board member JB Straubel started the electric vehicle battery recycling company Redwood Materials in 2017. Now, as the EV industry continues to expand, the recycling company has raised over $1 billion in a new funding round, officially pushing Redwood past a $5 billion valuation. Straubel’s Redwood Materials … [continued]
