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Redwood Materials has recycled e-bike batteries and Tesla batteries. Now, it’s ready to go up a few sizes.
The electric vehicle battery recycling and manufacturing venture founded by the former chief technologist of Tesla announced today that it will help decommission and recycle a 4MWh stationary storage substation in Kauai, Hawaii, as part of a massive solar array.
It will be Redwood’s first battery energy storage system and an important step in the company’s broader effort to prove that lithium-ion batteries and energy storage products of all sizes can have a new life beyond their current ones.
For JB Straubel, former Tesla CTO and founder of Redwood, it’s a project that has come full circle. Straubel w...
