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Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel On Racing To Scale Up Battery Recycling

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Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel On Racing To Scale Up Battery Recycling

Image caption: Tesla alum JB Straubel is now working on battery recycling at his new company Redwood Materials. Image courtesy of International Transport Forum.

CleanTechnica article posted February 4, 2023. Original article posted February 03, 2023 by Charles Morris on the Evannex blog. Original source: MIT Technology Review interview by Casey Crownhart.

We’ve reported on JB Straubel, Tesla’s former Chief Technology Officer, and his battery recycling company Redwood Materials, several times in this space. However, the EV industry is becoming increasingly aware of the importance of building domestic supply chains for battery materials, and recycling is an important part of that picture, so Mr. Straubel and other recycling pioneers are in the spotlight. In a recent interview for […]