Ford and Volvo tap the redwood material of Tesla co-founder to explore battery recycling

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March 05, 2022
By
Charles Morris

Establishing a circular supply chain for batteries is an important part of making electric vehicles truly sustainable and affordable, and that is the mission of Redwood Materials, the battery materials firm founded by Tesla cofounder JB Straubel.

Source: Redwood Materials

The company recently launched a battery recycling pilot in California that aims to “establish efficient, safe and effective recovery pathways for end-of-life hybrid and EV battery packs.” Ford and Volvo are the first automakers to directly support the program, but the company says it will accept all Li-ion and NiMH batteries in the state.

Redwood aims to pave the way for end-of-life battery packs to be collected, recycled and recycled into new battery materials. “While the first major wave of end-of-life electric vehicles is still a few years away, Redwood and our early partners at Ford and Volvo are now committed to building these routes,” the company says.

Redwood says it is processing most of the recycled lithium-ion batteries in North America today – some 6 GWh worth, or the equivalent of 60,000 EVs per year. The company is accelerating its processes to help identify the battery market and create battery pack aggregation avenues.

Youtube: Redwood Stuff

Redwood plans to work directly with dealers and disruptors in California to identify and recover end-of-life packs. The company will safely package, transport and recycle these batteries at its facility in Nevada, then return the high-quality recycled materials to domestic cell production.

“Our goal is to learn, and share those learnings with the industry,” Redwood says. “We’ll be demonstrating today the value of end-of-life packs and how we can continually improve those economics as volumes grow. Ultimately, we aim to create the most effective and sustainable closed-loop systems that integrate physics and chemistry.” Will allow end-of-life battery packs to re-enter the domestic supply chain.

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This article originally appeared in Charged. Author: Charles Morris. Source: Redwood Materials

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