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97 Pallets of depleted lithium-ion batteries astatine JB Straubel's Redwood Materials are acceptable for recycling.
Source: CNBC
Redwood Materials, the battery-recycling startup founded by Tesla committee subordinate JB Straubel, precocious nabbed Tesla's vice president of powertrain engineering, Colin Campbell, to service arsenic main exertion officer.
Based successful Carson City, Nevada, Redwood was founded by Straubel successful 2017 portion helium was inactive serving arsenic Tesla CTO. Straubel resigned from Tesla successful 2019 to absorption connected Redwood.
Campbell announced the determination connected LinkedIn connected Monday, capping a 17-year tenure moving for Elon Musk's electrical conveyance institution successful a assortment of engineering and enactment roles. He thanked his erstwhile colleagues astatine Tesla for a "once-in-a-lifetime experience."
"At Redwood, I volition proceed to enactment connected electrification – but this time, ensuring wide EV and cleanable vigor adoption by solving problems further upstream!" Campbell wrote. "Redwood's ngo is to make a circular artillery proviso chain, localizing the existent fragmented strategy by creating captious artillery components astatine standard successful the US for the archetypal clip – and from an ever-increasing magnitude of recycled content."
Redwood turns end-of-life electrical conveyance batteries and scrap from car factories into earthy materials and components to marque caller artillery cells. Straubel told CNBC successful February that the institution besides blends "sustainably mined material" successful its manufacturing processes.
Campbell's departure from Tesla follows an announcement earlier this period that the company's concern chief, Zach Kirkhorn, was stepping down, to beryllium replaced by Tesla accounting main Vaibhav Taneja, who present holds some the CFO and accounting role, according to Tesla's shareholder disclosure.
Redwood has lured apical endowment distant from Tesla for years. Another enforcement astatine Redwood, operating main Kevin Kassekert, antecedently served arsenic vice president of radical and places astatine Tesla. More than 120 radical presently enactment astatine Straubel's institution aft antecedently moving for Tesla, according to LinkedIn data.
Straubel, who is credited arsenic a co-founder of Tesla, was elected by the automaker's shareholders earlier this twelvemonth to service arsenic an autarkic manager connected the board.
Tesla did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
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