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This represents a substantial improvement and a significant leap towards more sustainable production methods. ",[5505],{"type":167,"attrs":5506},{"color":18},{"type":159,"content":5508},[5509,5515],{"text":5510,"type":164,"marks":5511},"Other emissions",[5512,5513],{"type":219},{"type":167,"attrs":5514},{"color":18},{"text":5516,"type":164,"marks":5517},": Our unique calcining process thermally decomposes battery minerals without oxygen – meaning they are not burned, avoiding combustion emissions like NOx, CO, SO2, and PM2.5. Importantly, this method ensures that there are no liquid waste streams generated. For the small fraction of inputs that are not battery minerals, we employ a world-class emissions control system post-calcination. 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Initially, our agreement focused on the collection, testing and recycling of Toyota hybrid electric vehicle batteries, all in an effort to create end-of-life pathways for those batteries. Eventually, the joint effort would expand into other areas, including battery materials supply, in North America.  ",[5637],{"type":167,"attrs":5638},{"color":18},{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":5641},[5642],{"text":5643,"type":164,"marks":5644},"Today, the second part begins to come together as we share that Toyota has agreed to source Redwood’s cathode active materials and anode copper foil as part of its production in Toyota’s upcoming North Carolina battery manufacturing plant. We believe this represents the first time that an automaker is both recycling end of life hybrid electric vehicle batteries, like those used in the Toyota Prius, and then returning those same recycled metals into that same automaker’s batteries for use in future electrified and all-electric vehicles.  ",[5645],{"type":167,"attrs":5646},{"color":18},{"type":159},[4376,3795,5649,5650],"06a0c3a3-f520-4ff6-b90e-6725714d7001","586418c6-4f34-45f3-b9bc-1091eb460c00",{"type":156,"content":5652},[5653,5657,5658,5666,5670,5671,5675,5676,5677],{"type":159,"content":5654},[5655],{"text":5656,"type":164},"Redwood is focused on creating the two most critical battery components in the US for the first time; cathode active materials and anode copper foil. Together, these two components account for the majority of the cost of a battery cell and yet are manufactured entirely overseas. Redwood’s focus and the path to decreasing electric vehicle cost, emissions, and securing our national supply chain, is to produce these components in the US, at scale, for the first time. Our mission as we build and expand the production of these battery components is to produce them from an ever-increasing amount of recycled content. Building on our work with Toyota, we will recycle their EVs and hybrid vehicles to help source metals that will build these components that will eventually end up back in their new vehicles.  ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":5659},[5660,5662],{"text":5661,"type":164},"For Toyota’s products, Redwood is targeting a minimum of 20% recycled nickel, 20% recycled lithium, and 50% recycled cobalt, in our cathode and 100% recycled copper in the anode copper foil, making ours the most sustainable battery materials available on earth. Our large-scale sources of domestic materials will be produced from as many recycled batteries as available but will also need to be augmented with sustainably mined material that we will source in coordination with our customers.",{"text":221,"type":164,"marks":5663},[5664],{"type":167,"attrs":5665},{"color":5062},{"type":159,"content":5667},[5668],{"text":5669,"type":164},"Today, battery components are produced via a convoluted supply chain and then imported to the U.S. only for final battery cell assembly. Redwood is making major investments in the U.S. to change this, and we’ll be spending billions of dollars to scale our technology and facilities in the next few years to bring cathode online and ramp production of critical battery components. We continue to expand our Northern Nevada facility and will soon break ground on our second Battery Materials Campus, outside Charleston, South Carolina. Both of Redwood’s campuses will recycle, refine, and manufacture battery materials, aiming to scale production of components to 100 GWh annually. ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":5672},[5673],{"text":5674,"type":164},"Ramping up a domestic battery materials supply chain and using the highest possible percent of local, recycled raw materials is the best way we can meet the United States’ electrification goals. 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As the first wave of these vehicles begin to retire from roads, California’s management of end-of-life battery packs will serve as a model for other states and the battery recycling industry.  ",{"type":159,"content":6189},[6190],{"text":6191,"type":164},"Today, we share a year’s worth of findings in hopes of demonstrating the value of end-of-life (EOL) packs, identifying gaps where the industry may need support, and aiding policymakers as they begin to make critical decisions on how best to responsibly manage EV batteries at end-of-life.  ",[3793,6193,3795,5779],"a9d8268d-5981-4f77-830d-2e8aeb366058",{"type":156,"content":6195},[6196,6209,6213,6217,6221,6225,6229,6233,6237,6241,6245,6249,6253,6254],{"type":159,"content":6197},[6198,6200,6208],{"text":6199,"type":164},"Working directly with auto dealers, dismantlers, and aggregators in California, we were able to identify and recover 1,268 end-of-life packs, totaling approximately half a million pounds of material. Of the packs we collected, less than 5% were “Damaged, Defective or Recalled” (DDR). We safely packaged, transported, and recycled all batteries at our facilities in neighboring Northern Nevada. From the recovered metals, we’re already beginning to produce high-quality battery materials, anode, and cathode, that ",{"text":6201,"type":164,"marks":6202},"can be returned directly to U.S. battery cell manufacturers",[6203,6207],{"type":48,"attrs":6204},{"href":6205,"uuid":75,"anchor":75,"custom":6206,"target":808,"linktype":20},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.redwoodmaterials.com\u002Fnews\u002Fredwood-high-nickel-cathode-panasonic\u002F",{},{"type":812},{"text":4587,"type":164},{"type":159,"content":6210},[6211],{"text":6212,"type":164},"The packs we collected were a mix of older NiMH and newer lithium-ion chemistries from more than a dozen different automakers. We expect mixed chemistries to continue as older, hybrid vehicle models now reaching end-of-life continue to retire in greater numbers from California roads. However, lithium-ion represented the majority of the chemistry types collected and we expect it will continue to grow as it is now the only type of vehicle battery on the market.  ",{"type":159,"content":6214},[6215],{"text":6216,"type":164},"The most significant cost of battery pack collection and recycling is logistics. The key to reducing logistics costs for end-of-life battery packs is to achieve economies of scale through increased collection volume and Redwood is confident that, in time, as EOL pack volumes increase, the logistics cost will decrease so that batteries will become assets that will help make EVs more sustainable and affordable in the long run. Today, Redwood’s recycling process is already profitable for smaller batteries, such as those found in consumer devices, and production scrap. As logistics becomes a smaller component of the overall value proposition, we anticipate a similar trend to happen for larger electric vehicle batteries in the coming years. ",{"type":159,"content":6218},[6219],{"text":6220,"type":164},"We also worked closely with auto dismantlers, which are core to creating the safest and most efficient recycling pathways. The Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA) and California Auto Dismantlers and Recyclers Alliance (CADRA), in particular, have been incredible partners and we look forward to continuing to work with them and their members to safely and sustainably continue to scale pathways for end-of-life EVs. Everyone we worked with in the dismantler community wants to do the right thing and they were excited to partner directly with Redwood to ensure responsible recycling. The dismantler community helped us to establish the most efficient transportation routes and aggregate batteries at their central locations and in return, they were appreciative of the knowledge we shared on handling, packaging and transporting EV packs.  ",{"type":159,"content":6222},[6223],{"text":6224,"type":164},"Redwood is supportive of public policies that govern the safe collection, transport and handling of EV packs and would encourage the industry and policymakers to focus on lowering transportation costs without compromising safety. Existing regulatory frameworks were not intended to address recycling pathways for large electric vehicle battery packs. This is a major opportunity to update these regulations to address the modern EV era while continuing to ensure the safe collection and recycling of these packs, without adding additional fees that could inadvertently increase the costs of EVs. ",{"type":159,"content":6226},[6227],{"text":6228,"type":164},"There’s a strong willingness from vehicle OEMs to responsibly manage their EV batteries, as evidenced by Redwood’s partnerships with automakers in this pilot. An Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) approach could be effective but it's essential that any such policy allows automakers to partner directly with recyclers or recycle the batteries themselves. This is paramount to ensure the market manages EOL batteries in the safest and most efficient manner, while avoiding unnecessary costs to the battery value chain. It also presents an opportunity for the industry to drive down the costs of future domestic battery production and pass those savings to consumers. ",{"type":159,"content":6230},[6231],{"text":6232,"type":164},"However, mandating a singular Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO) for EV battery recycling, similar to certain e-waste frameworks, is not the appropriate solution for end-of-life EV battery packs. Instead, Extended Producer Responsibility programs can ensure best practices and responsible EOL management without choosing winners and losers.  ",{"type":159,"content":6234},[6235],{"text":6236,"type":164},"Automotive OEMs must also collaborate directly with recycling partners who can sustainably manage the materials throughout the supply chain, collecting and recycling end-of-life lithium-ion batteries and then refining the materials sustainably into “battery-grade” metals that can go directly back into battery component production. It is essential that recyclers have the capability to produce “battery-grade” refined metals. Without this capability, we will end up with a chain of recyclers producing only intermediates, adding to costs, and increasing the likelihood that critical materials could end up overseas instead of being reused in batteries to support the United States’ electrification goals.  ",{"type":159,"content":6238},[6239],{"text":6240,"type":164},"Our ability to effectively recover a high percentage of metals (~95%) and, in turn, produce downstream battery components from that recycled content demonstrates not only the need for qualified recyclers to manage these batteries but also a clear solution that both addresses EOL batteries and ensures material for future EV production. The value of end-of-life batteries lies in ensuring responsible recycling, and any proposals or actions that add extra costs to the EV battery value chain will put both California and the United States at a competitive disadvantage during this critical period of transition toward clean energy and electrification. ",{"type":159,"content":6242},[6243],{"text":6244,"type":164},"The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) recently incentivized stringent critical mineral and battery component requirements for EV batteries.  To comply with these new requirements, battery makers and automotive manufacturers will need a reliable, domestic supply of both recycled content and battery materials. Our program demonstrates the strong market for these materials within the U.S., especially considering the recent expansion of the Clean Vehicle Credit through the IRA. ",{"type":159,"content":6246},[6247],{"text":6248,"type":164},"With a year’s worth of knowledge and counting, it is clear that the market economics for EV battery packs and the valuable metals they contain provide an increasingly strong incentive for responsible end-of-life management. As policymakers across the nation consider proposals to ensure responsible EOL management of batteries, we encourage them to incentivize responsible recycling here in the U.S., similar to the policies established by the IRA.  We also urge policymakers to be mindful that, while still in the early stages, market forces and industry partnerships are already at work to create safe, efficient, and sustainable pathways for end-of-life batteries.  ",{"type":159,"content":6250},[6251],{"text":6252,"type":164},"As a nation, our focus should be on increasing EV adoption, which requires lowering EV costs so that they are widely accessible to all communities.  ",{"type":159},{"type":159},"update-california-ev-battery-recycling-program","news\u002Fupdate-california-ev-battery-recycling-program",-280,[],"b8c1f385-7623-4f1f-b927-d397ccb30b68","2023-03-02T14:00:10.782Z",[],{"name":6263,"created_at":6264,"published_at":6265,"updated_at":6266,"id":6267,"uuid":5779,"content":6268,"slug":6329,"full_slug":6330,"sort_by_date":75,"position":6331,"tag_list":6332,"is_startpage":78,"parent_id":366,"meta_data":75,"group_id":6333,"first_published_at":6334,"release_id":75,"lang":82,"path":75,"alternates":6335,"default_full_slug":75,"translated_slugs":75},"Redwood receives conditional commitment for $2B Department of Energy loan for battery materials  ","2023-02-08T17:03:52.764Z","2023-02-10T20:48:27.209Z","2023-02-10T20:48:27.230Z",259164852,{"_uid":6269,"author":18,"featured":78,"sections":6270,"component":139,"seo_image":6271,"seo_title":6263,"videosection":6274,"blockHeadline":6280,"blockCoverImage":6281,"blockStandfirst":6282,"seo_description":6283,"blockArticleBody":6284,"related_articles":6324,"blockArticlebody2":6325},"e2c7322a-1265-4484-a201-9208cfd9bbb3",[],{"id":6272,"alt":18,"name":18,"focus":18,"title":18,"filename":6273,"copyright":18,"fieldtype":122,"is_external_url":78},7162769,"https:\u002F\u002Fa.storyblok.com\u002Ff\u002F170040\u002F1802x1202\u002F08c868f41f\u002Fnews_doe_redwood.png",[6275],{"_uid":6276,"asset":6277,"component":151,"blend_mode":18},"4187a30f-1efe-4792-bb57-0937da80ba95",{"id":6278,"alt":18,"name":18,"focus":18,"title":18,"filename":6279,"copyright":18,"fieldtype":122,"is_external_url":78},7136584,"https:\u002F\u002Fa.storyblok.com\u002Ff\u002F170040\u002F8636x4868\u002F4659f8f509\u002Fnv_site_render.jpg","Redwood begins production of anode foil, receives conditional commitment for $2B Department of Energy loan for battery materials  ",{"id":6272,"alt":18,"name":18,"focus":18,"title":18,"filename":6273,"copyright":18,"fieldtype":122,"is_external_url":78},"Redwood has received conditional commitment for a $2 billion loan from the DOE's Loan Program Office. Redwood will draw upon this milestone-based financing in tranches that support our phased construction and allows us to unlock funding as we accelerate the construction and expansion of our first battery materials campus. ","Redwood Materials has received conditional commitment for a $2 billion loan from the Department of Energy’s Loan Program Office as part of the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Loan Program (ATVM)",{"type":156,"content":6285},[6286,6290,6294,6307,6311,6315,6319,6323],{"type":159,"content":6287},[6288],{"text":6289,"type":164},"Over the next decade, there will be extraordinary investment to scale domestic battery cell production in the United States. This investment is critical to keeping the U.S. at the forefront of manufacturing and job creation, meeting our clean energy and sustainability goals and ensuring we strengthen our supply chains and lessen our reliance on foreign battery components. ",{"type":159,"content":6291},[6292],{"text":6293,"type":164},"The two most essential and valuable components in a battery are the anode and cathode. The cathode contains all the critical metals in a battery – lithium, nickel, and cobalt – and requires a complex manufacturing process and functional specification integral to the performance and safety of an electric vehicle battery. The anode contains copper and graphite and is primarily responsible for a battery’s charging performance. Together, these components amount to nearly 80% of the materials cost of a lithium-ion battery. But today, these components are manufactured entirely overseas, predominantly in Asia.  Without domestic production, U.S. battery cell manufacturers are estimated to offshore more than $150 billion in economic value for anode and cathode components by 2030.  ",{"type":159,"content":6295},[6296,6298,6305],{"text":6297,"type":164},"Redwood is committed to solving this by manufacturing anode and cathode components in the U.S. and producing them from an increasing amount of recycled content. Last month, we began producing anode copper foil at our Northern Nevada facility, marking exactly one year from the initial site groundbreaking to start of production. Phase One of copper foil is now complete and later this year, we expect to begin cathode qualification. By producing critical battery materials domestically at scale, we will drive down battery costs, create thousands of U.S. jobs, and help retain billions of dollars in the U.S. economy that would otherwise be spent overseas. Among other partners, Panasonic will be the first to source our copper foil for cell production in the Nevada Gigafactory and our ",{"text":6299,"type":164,"marks":6300},"cathode material for battery cell production",[6301,6304],{"type":48,"attrs":6302},{"href":6205,"uuid":75,"anchor":75,"custom":6303,"target":808,"linktype":20},{},{"type":812},{"text":6306,"type":164}," in its new Kansas plant, targeted to come online in 2025. ",{"type":159,"content":6308},[6309],{"text":6310,"type":164},"As a result of our work, Redwood Materials has received conditional commitment for a $2 billion loan from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office as part of the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program (ATVM). Redwood will draw upon this milestone-based financing in tranches that support our phased construction and allow us to unlock funding as we accelerate the construction and expansion of our first battery materials campus. As part of this project, we expect to create 3,400 good-paying construction jobs and employ approximately 1,600 full-time employees. Ultimately, we will produce 100 GWh annually of ultra-thin battery-grade copper foil and cathode-active materials from both new and recycled feedstocks at gigafactory scale in the United States for the first time. This will provide enough battery materials to produce more than a million electric vehicles a year domestically.  ",{"type":159,"content":6312},[6313],{"text":6314,"type":164},"We have been working closely with the Loan Programs Office for more than a year and have undergone an extensive diligence process that thoroughly reviewed our technology, our ability to repay the loan, product demand, and dozens of other factors to get to this stage. Our project allows battery and automotive manufacturers to meet the new stringent critical mineral and battery component requirements for consumers to qualify for electric vehicle tax credits as established by the Inflation Reduction Act recently passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden. These policies support the localization of the battery supply chain – Redwood's core mission - and our operations ensure that the American battery industry has the necessary materials needed to successfully transition the U.S. to a clean energy and clean transportation future in the most sustainable, secure, and cost-effective manner.  ",{"type":159,"content":6316},[6317],{"text":6318,"type":164},"DOE's support for this project represents a critical milestone in the United States’ commitment to establishing a domestic battery supply chain rooted in manufacturing and American innovation. By localizing this critical supply chain and producing anode and cathode components at a gigafactory-scale in the US for the first time, Redwood is addressing perhaps the most important supply chain need in electrification and ensuring that the United States can deliver on its clean energy and sustainable transportation plans. ",{"type":159,"content":6320},[6321],{"text":6322,"type":164},"We appreciate the Department’s confidence in our team and mission, and we will continue to work tirelessly towards a sustainable energy future. ",{"type":159},[3280,3795,5558,5155],{"type":156,"content":6326},[6327,6328],{"type":159},{"type":159},"redwood-department-of-energy-loan","news\u002Fredwood-department-of-energy-loan",-260,[],"05daf5fe-97dd-4212-837c-e598897ea327","2023-02-09T17:00:06.827Z",[],{"name":6337,"created_at":6338,"published_at":6339,"updated_at":6340,"id":6341,"uuid":3280,"content":6342,"slug":6407,"full_slug":6408,"sort_by_date":75,"position":6409,"tag_list":6410,"is_startpage":78,"parent_id":366,"meta_data":75,"group_id":6411,"first_published_at":6412,"release_id":75,"lang":82,"path":75,"alternates":6413,"default_full_slug":75,"translated_slugs":75},"Redwood chooses Charleston, South Carolina region for new Battery Materials Campus","2022-12-14T13:37:07.296Z","2022-12-22T19:51:28.795Z","2022-12-22T19:51:28.816Z",234248048,{"_uid":6343,"author":18,"featured":78,"sections":6344,"component":139,"seo_image":6345,"seo_title":6337,"videosection":6348,"blockHeadline":6337,"blockCoverImage":6354,"blockStandfirst":6357,"seo_description":6358,"blockArticleBody":6359,"related_articles":6377,"blockArticlebody2":6378},"8a7c5d20-5567-478c-8d71-f990d3e50ab1",[],{"id":6346,"alt":18,"name":18,"focus":18,"title":18,"filename":6347,"copyright":18,"fieldtype":122,"is_external_url":78},6682688,"https:\u002F\u002Fa.storyblok.com\u002Ff\u002F170040\u002F4800x2700\u002F405e78ce5f\u002Fsouth_carolina_site_render_2.png",[6349],{"_uid":6350,"asset":6351,"component":151,"blend_mode":18},"fb8e17ba-8cd6-4885-8094-f939a69c040b",{"id":6352,"alt":18,"name":18,"focus":18,"title":18,"filename":6353,"copyright":18,"fieldtype":122,"is_external_url":78},6677135,"https:\u002F\u002Fa.storyblok.com\u002Ff\u002F170040\u002F4088x2497\u002Fe5f93bbb42\u002Fsouth_carolina_site_render_1.png",{"id":6355,"alt":18,"name":18,"focus":18,"title":18,"filename":6356,"copyright":18,"fieldtype":122,"is_external_url":78},6684153,"https:\u002F\u002Fa.storyblok.com\u002Ff\u002F170040\u002F1200x675\u002Fb0e9e8b382\u002Fsouth_carolina_site_render_3.png","Today, we announce Redwood’s next Battery Materials Campus, in the heart of the “Battery Belt,” just outside of Charleston, South Carolina.","At Camp Hall in Berkeley County, Redwood will recycle, refine, and manufacture anode and cathode components on over 600 acres, creating more than 1,500 jobs and investing $3.5 billion in the local community.",{"type":156,"content":6360},[6361,6365,6369,6373],{"type":159,"content":6362},[6363],{"text":6364,"type":164},"Redwood combines recycling, refining and remanufacturing to produce and return battery materials to U.S. battery cell manufacturers. We take in end-of-life batteries, break them down to their basic metals (like nickel, copper, cobalt, and lithium) and then rebuild those metals into cathode and anode products, the most critical and expensive components in an EV. Localizing the production of critical battery components and ensuring these materials are recycled is the only way to drive down costs, emissions, and geopolitical risks while meeting U.S. battery and electrification demand.",{"type":159,"content":6366},[6367],{"text":6368,"type":164},"Currently, anode and cathode components are not produced in North America, and battery cell manufacturers have to source them via a 50,000+ mile global supply chain. As a result, U.S. battery manufacturers will spend more than $150B overseas on these components by 2030.  ",{"type":159,"content":6370},[6371],{"text":6372,"type":164},"A new manufacturing corridor from Michigan to Georgia is becoming known as America’s “Battery Belt” and is where hundreds of GWh a year of battery cell production capacity will be built and start operating between now and 2030. Yet, unless metals like lithium and nickel are produced and refined and remain in country for domestic anode and cathode manufacturing at scale, these American battery cell facilities will have to continually source the majority of their components, predominantly from Asia. This will send most (50-75%) of the economic value and job creation overseas.",{"type":159,"content":6374},[6375],{"text":6376,"type":164},"Today, we announce Redwood’s next Battery Materials Campus, in the heart of the “Battery Belt,” just outside of Charleston, South Carolina. At Camp Hall in Berkeley County, Redwood will recycle, refine and manufacture anode and cathode components on more than 600 acres, creating more than 1,500 jobs and investing $3.5 billion in the local community. Eventually, this campus will produce 100 GWh of cathode and anode components per year –enough to power more than one million EVs. However, this site also provides us the opportunity to expand our operations to potentially several hundred GWh annually to meet future demand.",[5155,3283,3282,3795],{"type":156,"content":6379},[6380,6381,6385,6389,6393,6397,6401,6405,6406],{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":6382},[6383],{"text":6384,"type":164},"We plan to break ground on our Carolina Campus in Q1 2023 and have our first recycling process running by the end of next year. We will buildout downstream component manufacturing and scale, step-by-step.",{"type":159,"content":6386},[6387],{"text":6388,"type":164},"Similar to our Nevada operations, Redwood’s South Carolina operations will be 100% electric and won’t use any fossil fuel in our processes (we will not even pull a gas line to the site). We will source only zero emission, clean energy and our innovative plant design and manufacturing process will allow us to reduce the CO2 emissions associated with producing these components by about 80% compared to the current Asia-based supply chain that we are dependent on for these crucial materials.",{"type":159,"content":6390},[6391],{"text":6392,"type":164},"South Carolina has been home to the automotive industry for nearly three decades with more than 500 automotive companies and 72,000 autoworkers. Under Governor McMaster’s leadership, South Carolina’s commitment to creating a secure energy future and a competitive landscape for electric vehicle manufacturing, supported by a world-class workforce, fast and efficient logistics, zero-carbon electricity and a phenomenal site made it a smart decision for Redwood to invest here. Redwood’s existing partners like Toyota, Volvo, Panasonic and Envision AESC also have a strong foothold in this region, in addition to many other battery manufacturers.  South Carolina allows us to meet our partners’ demand while also scaling in the most sustainable and cost-effective way.",{"type":159,"content":6394},[6395],{"text":6396,"type":164},"Additionally, Charleston has consistently been awarded one of the top cities in the world to live, work, and visit.  Redwood is offering an exciting, new industry and will be able to recruit a talented workforce from all over the world to this region.",{"type":159,"content":6398},[6399],{"text":6400,"type":164},"With increasing demand for lithium-ion batteries, the ability to import raw materials, which we will also be able to refine on this site, presents a significant advantage. The Port of Charleston offers a top U.S. port as we scale production. Additionally, this site will be served by rail access, adding to the fast and efficient logistics this state and site offers. When paired with the benefits of the recent Inflation Reduction Act, this strategic location also allows us the opportunity to invest more heavily at home while potentially exporting components in the future, allowing the U.S. to become a global leader in this manufacturing capability. ",{"type":159,"content":6402},[6403],{"text":6404,"type":164},"We’re excited about our future in South Carolina and look forward to sharing more about our campus and plans!",{"type":159},{"type":159},"announcing-redwood-south-carolina","news\u002Fannouncing-redwood-south-carolina",-240,[],"14d60f5e-641f-4a17-896f-4942bfc5cf10","2022-12-14T15:00:02.727Z",[],{"name":6415,"created_at":6416,"published_at":6417,"updated_at":6418,"id":6419,"uuid":5155,"content":6420,"slug":6468,"full_slug":6469,"sort_by_date":6470,"position":6471,"tag_list":6472,"is_startpage":78,"parent_id":366,"meta_data":75,"group_id":6473,"first_published_at":6474,"release_id":75,"lang":82,"path":75,"alternates":6475,"default_full_slug":75,"translated_slugs":75},"Panasonic to source high-nickel cathode from Redwood","2022-11-15T03:15:57.878Z","2022-11-15T13:01:46.215Z","2022-11-15T13:01:46.242Z",219243012,{"_uid":6421,"author":18,"featured":78,"sections":6422,"component":139,"seo_image":6423,"seo_title":6415,"blockHeadline":6415,"blockCoverImage":6426,"blockStandfirst":6427,"seo_description":6427,"blockArticleBody":6428,"related_articles":6467},"38b0312a-174f-4047-9e58-c4f943453c63",[],{"id":6424,"alt":18,"name":18,"focus":18,"title":18,"filename":6425,"copyright":18,"fieldtype":122,"is_external_url":78},6375343,"https:\u002F\u002Fa.storyblok.com\u002Ff\u002F170040\u002F1078x718\u002F6265841dba\u002Fblog_panasonic_cathode.png",{"id":6424,"alt":18,"name":18,"focus":18,"title":18,"filename":6425,"copyright":18,"fieldtype":122,"is_external_url":78},"Panasonic will source Redwood’s cathode material for battery cell production in Panasonic’s new Kansas plant, targeted to come online in 2025. This will be the first time cathode has been produced in North America at Gigafactory scale and used in U.S. battery cell manufacturing.",{"type":156,"content":6429},[6430,6439,6443,6447,6451,6455,6459,6463],{"type":5324,"attrs":6431},{"id":6432,"body":6433},"83945db7-ac9f-492e-bef6-fe5687ebc035",[6434],{"_uid":6435,"asset":6436,"component":151,"blend_mode":16},"i-6826f5c8-24d9-42f7-818f-d28d63a4f681",{"id":6437,"alt":18,"name":18,"focus":18,"title":18,"filename":6438,"copyright":18,"fieldtype":122,"is_external_url":78},6376315,"https:\u002F\u002Fa.storyblok.com\u002Ff\u002F170040\u002F1457x163\u002F1f7056990f\u002Fpanasonic_redwood_logo.png",{"type":159,"content":6440},[6441],{"text":6442,"type":164},"In the next decade, global demand for lithium-ion batteries is projected to grow by more than 500% as more climate-change-combatting products are created. A key component for all batteries is cathode material, which accounts for over half the cost of a battery cell. The cathode cost is significant because it contains all of the critical metals – lithium, nickel, and cobalt – in the battery and has a complex manufacturing process and functional specification that is integral to the performance and safety of an electric vehicle battery. ",{"type":159,"content":6444},[6445],{"text":6446,"type":164},"With the battery cell manufacturing landscape in North America expanding each day to meet the increasing demand, vast quantities of cathode material are necessary to supply the EV industry. However, there is no cathode production at scale in North America today.",{"type":159,"content":6448},[6449],{"text":6450,"type":164},"Redwood is creating that. Our mission is to build and expand the production of battery components, anode and cathode, in the U.S. and produce them from an ever-increasing amount of recycled content. We’re making major investments in the U.S., and we’ll be spending billions of dollars to scale our technology and facilities in the next few years to bring cathode online and ramp production to 100 GWh, enough for 1 million EVs by 2025. By 2030 we expect our production of both anode and cathode to scale to 500 GWh\u002Fyear of materials, enough to power five million electric vehicles. Redwood will have the highest recycled material content of lithium, cobalt, and nickel, making our cathode the most sustainable battery material available.",{"type":159,"content":6452},[6453],{"text":6454,"type":164},"Panasonic will source Redwood’s cathode material for battery cell production in Panasonic’s new Kansas plant, targeted to come online in 2025. This will be the first time cathode has been produced in North America at Gigafactory scale and used in U.S. battery cell manufacturing, a critical milestone for the domestic supply chain and one of the key objectives of the recent Inflation Reduction Act.",{"type":159,"content":6456},[6457],{"text":6458,"type":164},"Our partnership with Panasonic Energy of North America first began in 2019 and since then the cell production scrap from the Gigafactory in Nevada (in which Panasonic is the battery cell manufacturer) has been recycled by Redwood. Panasonic will also be the first long-term buyer of Redwood's anode copper foil, another essential component in lithium-ion battery production. With both anode and cathode components created from recycled materials, Redwood and Panasonic are establishing a truly closed-loop for domestic cell production. The U.S. must continue to scale partnerships like these to meet increased domestic production of EVs while simultaneously helping to decrease cost, supply chain risks, and CO2 resulting from a global logistics footprint.",{"type":159,"content":6460},[6461],{"text":6462,"type":164},"Today, cathode is produced via a convoluted supply chain. Whether metals are newly mined or recycled in the U.S., the existing supply chain and lagging infrastructure requires these minerals to travel outside the United States, in most cases to Asia, where the majority of existing infrastructure and manufacturing expertise exists. Currently, domestic cell production has tolerated a 50,000+ mile supply chain for cathode before it ever reaches a battery cell factory in the United States, but this is far from sustainable. To keep pace with domestic electrification plans and mounting EV demand, the U.S. would need to import greater than 2,000,000 MT of cathode through the year 2030, allowing a lost economic value of greater than $100 billion USD.",{"type":159,"content":6464},[6465],{"text":6466,"type":164},"Redwood will supply U.S. battery cell manufacturers with strategic battery materials produced domestically. Quickly ramping up a domestic battery materials supply chain and using the highest possible percent of local, recycled raw materials is the best way we can meet the United States’ 2030 goals of 50% EV sales. 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When Rotary reached out to Stanford it seemed fortuitous; The Los Altos Rotary Club and Redwood were quickly put in touch and our first collection events were born with the Rotary Clubs of Los Altos, Cupertino and San Jose.  ",{"type":159,"content":6717},[6718],{"text":6719,"type":164},"Batteries are in nearly every consumer device. From cell phones to laptops, e-bikes to scooters and electric toothbrushes to vacuum cleaners and power drills, our dependency on rechargeable batteries is skyrocketing. And, as more electric vehicles hit our roads (now at 5 percent market penetration in the US and growing rapidly), we’ll need more and more batteries. Lithium-ion batteries are a phenomenal technology that can propel us into a clean energy and transportation future. But as demand increases exponentially, batteries and the materials inside them could become a gating factor to a sustainable future. 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Redwood’s mission is achieved by working with leaders across the electric vehicle and clean energy industries who share our mission to create a domestic, closed-loop battery supply chain – we’re thrilled to be embarking on this collaboration with VWGoA. ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":6802},[6803],{"text":6804,"type":164},"Redwood will work directly with Volkswagen Group of America’s network of more than 1,000 dealers to recover, safely package, transport, and recycle end-of-life EV battery packs from Volkswagen and Audi vehicles. At our Northern Nevada facilities, we will recover more than 95% of the metals like nickel, cobalt, lithium and copper from their batteries and then, rather than exporting those metals overseas, use them to remanufacture anode and cathode components that we will supply back to US battery cell manufacturers without these minerals ever leaving the country. ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":6807},[6808],{"text":6809,"type":164},"Annually, 6 GWh of lithium-ion batteries, enough to build more than 60,000 EVs, come through Redwood’s doors - the majority of the lithium-ion batteries recycled in North America today – and we’ve been ramping our processes in preparation for even more batteries as the first wave of electric vehicles begins to retire from our roads. Our partnership with Volkswagen Group of America will increase what’s available for Redwood to recycle so that we can make even more sustainable and affordable battery materials. As more and more electric vehicles reach end-of-life, their battery packs will provide a sizeable, infinitely recyclable resource that can continue to make EVs more and more sustainable and affordable. ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":6812},[6813],{"text":6814,"type":164},"Batteries are the most expensive part of an electric vehicle, often accounting for 20-30% of the vehicle cost. To drive down the cost of electric vehicles we must reduce that material cost which can be done by localization and use of recycled content. Redwood’s end-to-end process is recapturing the value of those lithium-ion batteries and passing it to our U.S.-based cell manufacturing partners, ultimately making EVs and American manufacturing more sustainable and affordable. Additionally, given the distance the materials inside batteries must travel today from mine to battery cell – more than 50,000 miles – and these metal’s infinite recyclability, we can ensure the initial carbon cost of mining these materials can be reduced every time, making batteries more and more sustainable.  ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":6817},[6818],{"text":6819,"type":164},"The transition to electric transportation and clean energy is coming. Volkswagen Group of America is aiming for 55% of its U.S. sales to be fully electric by 2030 and our partnership is the first step in creating circularity for current and future vehicles. We are excited to team up with Volkswagen Group of America to further accelerate a sustainable transportation future. 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Our goal is to create a fully closed loop to drive down the environmental and economic costs of electric vehicles. Today, we’re pleased to announce our work with Toyota Motor North America to create a battery ecosystem across their lineup of electrified vehicles that encompasses all steps for full circularity.  ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":6852},[6853],{"text":6854,"type":164},"Toyota paved the way for clean transportation with the introduction of the Toyota Prius hybrid electric vehicle more than 20 years ago. The first wave of battery-electric vehicles retiring from roads today, ready for recycling, are predominantly Prius vehicles. Toyota remains committed not only to selling millions more electrified vehicles this decade but to ensuring their vehicles’ circularity into the future.   ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":6857},[6858],{"text":6859,"type":164},"Together, Toyota and Redwood will create a truly closed-loop solution for batteries. Initially, we will focus on testing and recycling Toyota batteries, creating end-of-life pathways for the original hybrid electric vehicles. We will then expand into other areas including battery health screening and data management, remanufacturing, and battery material supply throughout North America.  ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":6862},[6863],{"text":6864,"type":164},"Work will be focused at Redwood’s ~175-acre Northern Nevada Battery Materials Campus, located adjacent to the world’s oldest and largest electric vehicle market, California, where the first wave of Priuses and soon, electric vehicles, are retiring from roads. As Redwood plans for our additional operations, we will be located in the region near Toyota’s recently announced North American battery plant and many of our other partners on the East Coast, further localizing our process and increasing the sustainability of batteries.  ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":6867},[6868],{"text":6869,"type":164},"Redwood is driving down the environmental footprint and cost of lithium-ion batteries by offering large-scale sources of domestic anode and cathode materials produced from recycled batteries. Today, we receive more than ~6 GWh of end-of-life batteries annually for recycling, which are then refined and remanufactured into critical battery materials. We’re ramping production of anode and cathode components in the US to 100 GWh annually by 2025, enough to produce more than one million electric vehicles a year and then scaling to 500 GWh, enough for five million EVs annually, by 2030.   ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":6872},[6873],{"text":6874,"type":164},"Together, Toyota and Redwood will work to seamlessly incorporate battery recycling through domestic battery materials manufacturing into Toyota’s battery production strategy. Our shared vision to drive down the environmental footprint and cost of transportation will continue to accelerate the adoption and access to electric vehicles. 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Ford Motor Company and Volvo Cars are the first automakers to directly support the program, but we will accept all lithium-ion (Li-ion) and nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries in the state and welcome other automakers to join us in this effort!  ",{"type":159},[3282,6665,4376,6016],{"type":156,"content":6933},[6934,6935,6939,6940,6944,6945,6949,6950,6963,6964,6978,6982,6983],{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":6936},[6937],{"text":6938,"type":164},"To truly make electric vehicles sustainable and affordable, we need to create pathways for end-of-life battery packs to be collected, recycled and remanufactured into new battery materials. Scaling production of EVs, increasingly from recycled materials, domestically, is the only way we can create a circular and, therefore, sustainable and secure supply chain to meet the US’ electrification plans. While the first major wave of end-of-life electric vehicles is still a few years away, Redwood and our initial partners at Ford and Volvo are committed to creating these pathways now.  ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":6941},[6942],{"text":6943,"type":164},"Annually, 6 GWh of lithium-ion batteries or the equivalent of 60,000 EVs, come through Redwood’s doors - most of the recycled lithium-ion batteries in North America today. We’ve been ramping our processes in preparation for the first wave of these vehicles to come off roads and we’re ready to support the battery market in identifying and creating pathways to collect battery packs. ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":6946},[6947],{"text":6948,"type":164},"California has always been a leader in the transition to electric transportation and, as a result, is the oldest and one of the largest electric vehicle markets on earth. When the first major wave of EVs begins to retire from roads, it will happen in California.  ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":6951},[6952,6954,6961],{"text":6953,"type":164},"When we ",{"text":6955,"type":164,"marks":6956},"first announced",[6957,6960],{"type":48,"attrs":6958},{"href":6959,"uuid":6665,"anchor":75,"target":465,"linktype":32},"\u002Fnews\u002Fredwood-materials-and-ford-motor-company-announce-strategic-relationship",{"type":812},{"text":6962,"type":164}," our partnership with Ford last year, we shared that our initial workstream was to collaborate to determine how we can create pathways together for Ford and Lincoln electrified vehicles to come off the road at the end of their lives and be recycled and manufactured into battery materials to make more, locally manufactured, electric vehicles.  Volvo, while a new relationship, is similarly focused on ensuring responsible and secure pathways for end-of-life batteries.   ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":6965},[6966,6968,6976],{"text":6967,"type":164},"We will work directly with dealers and dismantlers in California to ",{"text":6969,"type":164,"marks":6970},"identify and recover",[6971,6975],{"type":48,"attrs":6972},{"href":6973,"uuid":6974,"anchor":75,"target":465,"linktype":32},"\u002Fauto-recyclers-battery-portal","da5e2096-d526-4809-a55f-7a0ba5663995",{"type":812},{"text":6977,"type":164}," end-of-life packs. Redwood will then safely package, transport, and recycle these batteries at our facilities in neighboring Northern Nevada, and then return high quality, recycled materials back into domestic cell production. Overtime, as EOL packs scale, we expect these batteries to become valuable assets that will help make EVs more sustainable and affordable. ",{"type":159,"content":6979},[6980],{"text":6981,"type":164},"Our goal is to learn and share those learnings with the industry. We will demonstrate the value of end-of-life packs today and how we can steadily improve those economics as volumes scale up. Ultimately, our aim is to create the most effective and sustainable closed-loop system that physics, and chemistry will allow for end-of-life battery packs to re-enter the domestic supply chain. We look forward to working with the State of California, dismantlers, dealers, and other automakers and hope to be a resource, sharing our results and learnings as we go.",{"type":159},{"type":159},"electric-vehicle-and-hybrid-battery-recycling-california","news\u002Felectric-vehicle-and-hybrid-battery-recycling-california","2022-02-17",[1125],"c5f2a411-77d7-42b2-9b89-cf6e6234581b","2022-02-17T14:00:00.000Z",[],{"name":6992,"created_at":6993,"published_at":6994,"updated_at":6995,"id":6996,"uuid":5906,"content":6997,"slug":7052,"full_slug":7053,"sort_by_date":7054,"position":7055,"tag_list":7056,"is_startpage":78,"parent_id":366,"meta_data":75,"group_id":7057,"first_published_at":7058,"release_id":75,"lang":82,"path":75,"alternates":7059,"default_full_slug":75,"translated_slugs":75},"Redwood Materials expands into Europe","2022-09-21T19:03:15.176Z","2024-03-29T18:03:39.877Z","2024-03-29T18:03:39.892Z",192420858,{"_uid":6998,"author":18,"featured":78,"sections":6999,"component":139,"seo_image":7000,"seo_title":6992,"videosection":7003,"blockHeadline":6992,"blockCoverImage":7008,"blockStandfirst":7009,"seo_description":7010,"blockArticleBody":7011,"related_articles":7048,"blockArticlebody2":7049},"a23a6c41-246d-4104-b88a-2d647fb452ea",[],{"id":7001,"alt":18,"name":18,"focus":18,"title":18,"filename":7002,"copyright":18,"fieldtype":122,"is_external_url":78},6039564,"https:\u002F\u002Fa.storyblok.com\u002Ff\u002F170040\u002F8292x5000\u002Fcbe66d2da9\u002Fnews_post_european_generic.jpeg",[7004],{"_uid":7005,"asset":7006,"component":151,"blend_mode":18},"2de29ba9-8484-4719-b8a4-0ef361b6f270",{"id":75,"alt":75,"name":18,"focus":75,"title":75,"source":75,"filename":18,"copyright":75,"fieldtype":122,"meta_data":7007},{},{"id":7001,"alt":18,"name":18,"focus":18,"title":18,"filename":7002,"copyright":18,"fieldtype":122,"is_external_url":78},"Our focus on creating a circular, localized battery supply chain on both continents","Redwood is focused on creating a circular, localized battery supply chain on both continents.",{"type":156,"content":7012},[7013,7017,7018,7022,7023,7027,7031,7032,7036,7037],{"type":159,"content":7014},[7015],{"text":7016,"type":164},"To make electric vehicles and energy storage products truly sustainable and affordable we need to localize production which begins upstream from battery manufacturing. Redwood combines recycling, refining and remanufacturing on the same continent to return battery materials to local battery manufacturers. What that looks like in practice is taking in end-of-life batteries, breaking them down to their basic metals like nickel, copper, cobalt, and lithium, and then rebuilding those metals into cathode and anode products. To create a sustainable supply chain, we need this circular process replicated in every major EV and clean energy market.",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7019},[7020],{"text":7021,"type":164},"While we’re moving quickly in the US to address our nation’s 2030 electrification goals, there’s another market with similarly aggressive ambitions that also relies heavily on a convoluted, overseas supply chain with high CO2 emissions: Europe. Today, Europe is the fastest growing EV market globally, with an increasing commitment from automakers. 1000 GWh battery cell production is planned in the EU to support EV sales that are expected to account for nearly 30% of total passenger cars by 2025.",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7024},[7025],{"text":7026,"type":164},"Localizing the global battery supply chain on each continent will be critical to driving down the costs and increasing the sustainability of electric vehicles and clean energy storage. Just as stopping after recycling without further refining and remanufacturing battery materials doesn’t address some of the biggest cost and environmental issues, shipping finished products across the world also cannot be the goal as the world electrifies. In Europe, we will replicate the same circular supply chain we’re building in the US; collecting end of life batteries for recycling and then returning anode copper foil and cathode active materials to partners in Europe. ",{"type":159,"content":7028},[7029],{"text":7030,"type":164},"In 2022, we will significantly expand our international team, growing our operations and establishing partnerships with automakers and battery cell manufactures in the EU. To support this effort, we have two European leaders: Dirk Demuth, who just joined as SVP of European Operations and Odd-Even Bustnes, who joined Redwood last year as VP of Business Development, Europe. They will focus on expanding our team with the best and brightest who share our vision of a closed-loop ecosystem with dramatically reduced lifecycle CO2 emissions for all lithium-ion batteries.",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7033},[7034],{"text":7035,"type":164},"About a year following our US plans, and using our unique process and production technology, we will build out similar hydromet recycling operations to feed production of copper foil and cathode active material sites in Europe. This recycled material content will steadily increase every year and eventually recycled materials will account for nearly 100% of materials in batteries as the whole industry grows and the ecosystem becomes healthier. We’ll locate these facilities where we can best meet incoming materials and outgoing products, shrinking the logistics footprint on both ends as much as possible and locating where we can recruit the best talent.   ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7038},[7039,7041],{"text":7040,"type":164},"We look forward to sharing more about our European expansion and encourage those who are passionate about sustainability and using technology to solve environmental problems to ",{"text":7042,"type":164,"marks":7043},"join our team!",[7044,7047],{"type":48,"attrs":7045},{"href":7046,"uuid":75,"anchor":75,"target":465,"linktype":20},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.redwoodmaterials.com\u002Fjoin\u002F",{"type":812},[5558,6666,3282,6665],{"type":156,"content":7050},[7051],{"type":159},"redwood-materials-expands-into-europe","news\u002Fredwood-materials-expands-into-europe","2022-02-04",-40,[],"e979d5bd-c560-4459-aff3-5e5d700ea0a9","2022-02-04T14:06:00.000Z",[],{"name":7061,"created_at":7062,"published_at":7063,"updated_at":7064,"id":7065,"uuid":6666,"content":7066,"slug":7113,"full_slug":7114,"sort_by_date":7115,"position":76,"tag_list":7116,"is_startpage":78,"parent_id":366,"meta_data":75,"group_id":7117,"first_published_at":7118,"release_id":75,"lang":82,"path":75,"alternates":7119,"default_full_slug":75,"translated_slugs":75},"An update on our anode copper foil product & facility","2022-08-14T10:49:09.651Z","2022-10-07T22:56:11.566Z","2022-10-07T22:56:11.583Z",175512514,{"_uid":6685,"body":7067,"author":18,"featured":78,"sections":7075,"component":139,"seo_image":7076,"seo_title":7061,"coverImage":7077,"standfirst":6702,"blockHeadline":7061,"blockCoverImage":7078,"blockStandfirst":7079,"seo_description":7079,"blockArticleBody":7080,"related_articles":7112},{"type":156,"content":7068},[7069,7072],{"type":159,"content":7070},[7071],{"text":6691,"type":164},{"type":159,"content":7073},[7074],{"text":6695,"type":164},[],{"id":1425,"alt":18,"name":18,"focus":18,"title":18,"filename":1426,"copyright":18,"fieldtype":122,"is_external_url":78},{"id":75,"alt":75,"name":18,"focus":75,"title":75,"filename":18,"copyright":75,"fieldtype":122},{"id":1425,"alt":18,"name":18,"focus":18,"title":18,"filename":1426,"copyright":18,"fieldtype":122,"is_external_url":78},"Redwood will ramp copper foil production to 100 GWh, or 250,000 km of product, annually.",{"type":156,"content":7081},[7082,7086,7087,7091,7092,7096,7099,7103,7107,7108],{"type":159,"content":7083},[7084],{"text":7085,"type":164},"Last year, Redwood announced we would produce strategic battery materials in the US, supplying battery cell manufacturing partners with anode copper foil and cathode active materials. In a matter of months, our anode copper foil facility at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center will be complete and we will begin producing and delivering product to customers in the first half of this year.  ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7088},[7089],{"text":7090,"type":164},"Over the next few years, Redwood will ramp copper foil production to 100 GWh or 250,000 km of product annually; enough copper foil to build more than one million electric vehicles a year or wrap copper foil around the entire world six times!  ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7093},[7094],{"text":7095,"type":164},"Additionally, this site will house our hydrometallurgy recycling operations, which will allow us to feed copper from recycled lithium-ion batteries directly into copper foil production in a closed-loop. Because initially, Redwood’s production of copper foil will outweigh current supply of copper recovered from our battery recycling operations, we will also be sourcing other domestic recycled copper. Today, the US exports several hundred thousand tons of copper a year to Asia so Redwood’s utilization of this secondary supply will ensure this critical metal stays in the US. ",{"type":159,"content":7097},[7098],{"text":4361,"type":164},{"type":159,"content":7100},[7101],{"text":7102,"type":164},"Speaking of Asia, nearly all anode copper foil (and cathode!) production globally happens in Asia. This means that battery materials must travel tens of thousands of miles before they make their way into a final product, contributing significantly to the environmental impact and cost of battery production. By localizing copper foil in the US, we'll make this product more sustainable while driving down costs and supply chain risks. Just by localizing this product, Redwood will eliminate more than 5,500 MT of CO2 each year!  ",{"type":159,"content":7104},[7105],{"text":7106,"type":164},"Panasonic will be the first partners who expect to source Redwood’s copper foil. Our partnership with Panasonic began in 2019 and since, we’ve been recycling all Panasonic’s manufacturing scrap from the Tesla Gigafactory. That very same material will now be recycled, and the copper contained will be remanufactured into anode foil and returned to Panasonic at the Gigafactory, just a few miles down the road. This will mark the first time batteries will be recycled, remanufactured and then returned to the same factory in a fully closed loop! ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7109},[7110],{"text":7111,"type":164},"As part of our copper foil facility and expanded recycling operations, we expect to invest $1 billion in Northern Nevada over the coming years and hire more than 500 people at our Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center site. Additionally, we are still actively searching for another battery materials campus, focused on cathode production, which we plan to announce this year. At that site, we will spend upwards of $2 billion and scale cathode production to 500 GWh or five million electric vehicles by 2030. Stay tuned! ",[5558,3282,6665,4376],"anode-copper-foil-product-update","news\u002Fanode-copper-foil-product-update","2022-01-19",[],"72904954-433d-4151-a932-73893713c9c9","2022-01-19T14:02:00.000Z",[],{"name":7121,"created_at":7122,"published_at":7123,"updated_at":7124,"id":7125,"uuid":6665,"content":7126,"slug":7223,"full_slug":7224,"sort_by_date":7225,"position":76,"tag_list":7226,"is_startpage":78,"parent_id":366,"meta_data":75,"group_id":7227,"first_published_at":7228,"release_id":75,"lang":82,"path":75,"alternates":7229,"default_full_slug":75,"translated_slugs":75},"Redwood Materials and Ford Motor Company Announce Strategic Relationship","2022-08-14T10:49:42.145Z","2024-10-24T17:45:04.620Z","2024-10-24T17:45:04.640Z",175512515,{"_uid":6685,"body":7127,"author":18,"featured":78,"sections":7135,"component":139,"seo_image":7136,"seo_title":7139,"coverImage":7140,"standfirst":6702,"videosection":7141,"blockHeadline":7139,"blockCoverImage":7146,"blockStandfirst":7147,"seo_description":7147,"blockArticleBody":7148,"related_articles":7219,"blockArticlebody2":7220},{"type":156,"content":7128},[7129,7132],{"type":159,"content":7130},[7131],{"text":6691,"type":164},{"type":159,"content":7133},[7134],{"text":6695,"type":164},[],{"id":7137,"alt":18,"name":18,"focus":18,"title":18,"filename":7138,"copyright":18,"fieldtype":122,"is_external_url":78},5886164,"https:\u002F\u002Fa.storyblok.com\u002Ff\u002F170040\u002F888x592\u002F8f35e34cd7\u002Fblog_ford_partnership.png","Redwood Materials and Ford Motor Company announce strategic relationship",{"id":75,"alt":75,"name":18,"focus":75,"title":75,"filename":18,"copyright":75,"fieldtype":122},[7142],{"_uid":7143,"asset":7144,"component":151,"blend_mode":18},"05379857-3b34-43db-93eb-0c9e2e48bb8c",{"id":75,"alt":75,"name":18,"focus":75,"title":75,"source":75,"filename":18,"copyright":75,"fieldtype":122,"meta_data":7145},{},{"id":7137,"alt":18,"name":18,"focus":18,"title":18,"filename":7138,"copyright":18,"fieldtype":122,"is_external_url":78},"We'll be working with Ford Motor Company to create a closed loop for battery recycling and a domestic supply chain for critical battery materials.",{"type":156,"content":7149},[7150,7154,7155,7159,7160,7164,7165,7169,7170,7174,7175,7179,7180,7184,7185,7189,7190,7209,7210,7214,7215],{"type":159,"content":7151},[7152],{"text":7153,"type":164},"Redwood’s mission is to create a circular supply chain for batteries and help partners across the electric vehicle and clean energy industries with pathways, processes, and technologies to recycle and remanufacture lithium-ion batteries. Today we announce that we'll be working with Ford Motor Company to create a closed loop for battery recycling and a domestic supply chain for critical battery materials.   ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7156},[7157],{"text":7158,"type":164},"Redwood's existing partnerships span a broad range; from working with battery manufacturers to recycle production scrap to teaming up with automakers to process end of life EVs, and soon, to supplying anode and cathode materials back to the US supply chain. Our relationship with Ford will look at how we can uniquely span the entire battery lifecycle.  ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7161},[7162],{"text":7163,"type":164},"It’s been incredible to see the tide change as so many automakers commit to a fully electric future. However, we need to plan far ahead for the increased demand of materials that this transition will create.  We also must manage supply chain risks carefully around lithium-ion batteries or we risk a repeat of the semiconductor production shortages causing chaos in the world today.   ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7166},[7167],{"text":7168,"type":164},"Additionally, we need to start planning now for the end-of-life of batteries as we ramp up to build millions of EVs that can’t be disposed of safely without a robust recycling solution.  The exciting side of this problem is that the critical materials inside of a battery are essentially infinitely recyclable.  Unlike gasoline, the materials are not consumed or lost in their lifetime of usage in the vehicle.   ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7171},[7172],{"text":7173,"type":164},"Creating a robust closed-loop battery industry solves both the environmental challenges at end of life and unlocks a huge new source of raw materials to help reduce supply chain materials shortages and pressure for increased mining.   ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7176},[7177],{"text":7178,"type":164},"While few automakers are thinking far ahead, Ford stands apart in their long-term strategic understanding that these complex issues present an incredible opportunity. Redwood and Ford share an understanding that to truly make electric vehicles sustainable and affordable, we need to localize the existing complex and expensive supply chain network, create pathways for end-of-life vehicles, ramp lithium-ion recycling and increase battery production, all right here in America.   ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7181},[7182],{"text":7183,"type":164},"The Ford and Redwood vision begins with incorporating battery recycling into Ford’s American battery production strategy, integrating recycled battery materials, both scrap from battery production and batteries at the end of their useful life, into the battery supply chain to drive down costs, environmental footprint and secure a critical battery material supply that Ford will need to continue to ramp their electric vehicle production.  ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7186},[7187],{"text":7188,"type":164},"But recycling is just the first step in creating a circular supply chain. We’ll be collaborating to determine how, together, we can create pathways for consumer vehicles to come off the road at the end of their life and be recycled and manufactured into battery materials to make more Ford electric vehicles.     ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7191},[7192,7194,7201,7203,7207],{"text":7193,"type":164},"Last week, ",{"text":7195,"type":164,"marks":7196},"Redwood announced plans",[7197,7200],{"type":48,"attrs":7198},{"href":7199,"uuid":5558,"anchor":75,"target":465,"linktype":32},"\u002Fnews\u002Fmanufacturing-anode-copper-foil-and-cathode-active-materials",{"type":812},{"text":7202,"type":164}," to produce anode foils and cathode materials domestically and our intentions to ramp to 100 GWh of cathode material, enough for one million electric vehicles by 2025. As part of this relationship, we’re discussing how Redwood could supply Ford’s American battery facilities to ensure a steady, domestic source of ",{"text":6596,"type":164,"marks":7204},[7205],{"type":48,"attrs":7206},{"href":4763,"uuid":75,"anchor":75,"target":465,"linktype":20},{"text":7208,"type":164}," to fuel the production of Ford electric vehicles.    ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7211},[7212],{"text":7213,"type":164},"To further advance these business opportunities between the companies, Ford has invested $50 million in Redwood to help us expand our manufacturing footprint.   ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7216},[7217],{"text":7218,"type":164},"Increasing our nation’s production of batteries and their materials through domestic recycling will serve as a key enabler to decrease the environmental footprint of U.S. manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries, decrease cost and drive-up domestic adoption of electric vehicles. The domestic production of batteries and their materials will help to secure our nation’s battery supply and usher in a new era of sustainable manufacturing in America. We’re excited to build the future of electric vehicle manufacturing with America’s original automaker.",[3282,6666,4376,5558],{"type":156,"content":7221},[7222],{"type":159},"redwood-materials-and-ford-motor-company-announce-strategic-relationship","news\u002Fredwood-materials-and-ford-motor-company-announce-strategic-relationship","2021-09-22",[],"8a31db40-5ea1-4a39-8f53-16e010d25135","2021-09-22T14:14:00.000Z",[],{"name":7231,"created_at":7232,"published_at":7233,"updated_at":7234,"id":7235,"uuid":5558,"content":7236,"slug":7272,"full_slug":7273,"sort_by_date":7274,"position":7275,"tag_list":7276,"is_startpage":78,"parent_id":366,"meta_data":75,"group_id":7277,"first_published_at":7278,"release_id":75,"lang":82,"path":75,"alternates":7279,"default_full_slug":75,"translated_slugs":75},"Redwood’s plan to produce sustainable battery materials: anode copper foil and cathode active materials","2022-09-21T19:52:23.288Z","2022-10-07T22:46:45.759Z","2022-10-07T22:46:45.781Z",192427066,{"_uid":7237,"author":18,"featured":78,"sections":7238,"component":139,"seo_image":7239,"seo_title":7242,"blockHeadline":7231,"blockCoverImage":7243,"blockStandfirst":7244,"seo_description":7244,"blockArticleBody":7245,"related_articles":7271},"7f27f60c-cc73-4b28-aabe-1cab8ecc7c7c",[],{"id":7240,"alt":18,"name":18,"focus":18,"title":18,"filename":7241,"copyright":18,"fieldtype":122,"is_external_url":78},6050098,"https:\u002F\u002Fa.storyblok.com\u002Ff\u002F170040\u002F1181x623\u002Ffd48a7a188\u002Fblog_cathode_anode_production_announcement.png","Redwood’s plan to produce sustainable battery materials",{"id":7240,"alt":18,"name":18,"focus":18,"title":18,"filename":7241,"copyright":18,"fieldtype":122,"is_external_url":78},"Redwood will produce strategic battery materials in the US, first supplying battery cell manufacturing partners with anode copper foil and cathode active materials.",{"type":156,"content":7246},[7247,7251,7255,7259,7263,7267],{"type":159,"content":7248},[7249],{"text":7250,"type":164},"Redwood’s mission is to create a circular supply chain for electric vehicles and clean energy products, that make them more sustainable and drive down the single most expensive component: batteries. We’ve shared a lot about our recycling work which is certainly a core component of the battery sustainability equation but is only the tip of the iceberg for Redwood.   ",{"type":159,"content":7252},[7253],{"text":7254,"type":164},"To make electric vehicles and energy storage products fully sustainable and affordable we need to actually close the loop at their end of life. This means not just collecting and recycling the batteries but also continuing further, fully refining the materials we recover and then manufacturing them back into precision battery materials to use those raw materials again.  ",{"type":159,"content":7256},[7257],{"text":7258,"type":164},"The existing battery supply chain is a convoluted system that requires materials to travel tens of thousands of miles before they make their way into a final product. In looking at the supply chain for a single component such as cathode, the logistics required alone contribute enormously to the overall cost and carbon footprint.  ",{"type":159,"content":7260},[7261],{"text":7262,"type":164},"Redwood will produce strategic battery materials in the US, first supplying battery cell manufacturing partners with anode copper foil and cathode active materials. We plan to transform the lithium-ion battery supply chain by offering large-scale sources of these domestic materials produced from as many recycled batteries as available and augmented with sustainably mined material. These two products will become a closed loop and re-use all of the critical lithium, copper, nickel and cobalt that we already recover from old batteries! These materials will be built from more and more recycled battery content every year but in the immediate future, we need to ramp EV production faster than the number of existing EVs will reach end of life and therefore, be available for recycling. Quickly ramping up a domestic battery materials supply chain and using the highest possible percent of local, recycled raw materials is the best way we can meet the US’s 2030 electrification goals.  ",{"type":159,"content":7264},[7265],{"text":7266,"type":164},"In order to achieve a sustainable energy and transportation future, we need to start now and and rapidly expand a manufacturing base. By early 2022, Redwood will announce a site for our North American battery materials manufacturing facility, aiming to produce 100 GWh\u002Fyear of cathode active materials and anode foil for one million electric vehicles by 2025. By 2030, we expect our production output to scale to 500 GWh\u002Fyear of materials which would enable enough batteries to power five million electric vehicles or nearly half of the US’ annual vehicle production.",{"type":159,"content":7268},[7269],{"text":7270,"type":164},"Sustainable and affordable battery materials are the missing piece of the puzzle to create the fully closed-loop supply chain needed to build the world’s electric vehicles and clean energy products. We’re excited to share more in the coming weeks about these products and the partners that will join us as we build the future that we all want and need.",[6666,3282,6665,4376],"manufacturing-anode-copper-foil-and-cathode-active-materials","news\u002Fmanufacturing-anode-copper-foil-and-cathode-active-materials","2021-09-14",-60,[],"b04213e8-fcf5-485c-8be5-8b4706b6e6fa","2021-09-14T15:04:00.000Z",[],{"name":7281,"created_at":7282,"published_at":7283,"updated_at":7284,"id":7285,"uuid":6016,"content":7286,"slug":7333,"full_slug":7334,"sort_by_date":7335,"position":7336,"tag_list":7337,"is_startpage":78,"parent_id":366,"meta_data":75,"group_id":7338,"first_published_at":7339,"release_id":75,"lang":82,"path":75,"alternates":7340,"default_full_slug":75,"translated_slugs":75},"Redwood Materials announces $700M external investment round","2022-09-21T20:06:15.817Z","2022-10-07T22:46:09.572Z","2022-10-07T22:46:09.595Z",192442862,{"_uid":7287,"author":18,"featured":78,"sections":7288,"component":139,"seo_image":7289,"seo_title":7292,"blockHeadline":7281,"blockCoverImage":7293,"blockStandfirst":7294,"seo_description":7295,"blockArticleBody":7296,"related_articles":7332},"8126dc7c-4d58-4167-b570-8b2a04ae6fe4",[],{"id":7290,"alt":18,"name":18,"focus":18,"title":18,"filename":7291,"copyright":18,"fieldtype":122,"is_external_url":78},5886291,"https:\u002F\u002Fa.storyblok.com\u002Ff\u002F170040\u002F2500x1365\u002F6c055339bd\u002Fblog_factory_update_may_22_pano.jpg","Announcing a $700M investment round | Redwood Materials",{"id":7290,"alt":18,"name":18,"focus":18,"title":18,"filename":7291,"copyright":18,"fieldtype":122,"is_external_url":78},"“With this capital, Redwood will be able to accelerate our mission to make battery materials sustainable and affordable, accomplishing the change we need in the world with a circular economy.\" - JB Straubel","Redwood is announcing a more than $700M external investment from a carefully selected group of strategic investors who understand the mission and value of what Redwood is working to achieve. ",{"type":156,"content":7297},[7298,7302,7303,7307,7308,7312,7313,7317,7318,7322,7323,7327,7328],{"type":159,"content":7299},[7300],{"text":7301,"type":164},"Today, Redwood is announcing a more than $700M external investment from a carefully selected group of strategic investors who understand the mission and value of what Redwood is working to achieve. The round was led by funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. and includes Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Baillie Gifford, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, and Fidelity. In addition, all Series B investors, Capricorn's Technology Impact Fund, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, returned for this round and Valor Equity Partners, Emerson Collective, and Franklin Templeton also participated.  ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7304},[7305],{"text":7306,"type":164},"At Redwood, we know that in the coming decades, all transportation will be electric and all electricity will be sustainable. The lithium ion batteries and other materials needed to power these solutions will need to be reused. Redwood is creating a closed-loop supply chain for electric vehicles and energy products, making them truly sustainable and continuing to drive down the costs for batteries. ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7309},[7310],{"text":7311,"type":164},"“With this capital, Redwood will be able to accelerate our mission to make battery materials sustainable and affordable, accomplishing the change we need in the world with a circular economy,” said JB Straubel, CEO, Redwood Materials. “We’re grateful for these strategic investors who bring decades of experience investing in and supporting companies that build transformative technology and who understand the mission and value of what Redwood is working to achieve.”  ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7314},[7315],{"text":7316,"type":164},"“We are excited to begin this investment in the talented and accomplished team at Redwood as they expand their pursuit of building a world-class sustainable, closed-loop battery supply chain for electric vehicles,” said Joe Fath, portfolio manager of the T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund.  “In our view, the need for these materials will grow exponentially over time as we enter the era of de-carbonization.  We believe Redwood is well-positioned to be at the forefront of tackling this emerging and critically important problem.” ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7319},[7320],{"text":7321,"type":164},"Redwood is currently developing processes to produce battery materials to resell into the battery supply chain. We’ve partnered with Panasonic at the Gigafactory, Envision AESC in Tennessee, and with Amazon to recycle EV and other lithium-ion batteries and e-waste from parts of their businesses, among others.  ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7324},[7325],{"text":7326,"type":164},"Last month, we announced our plans to triple the size of our Carson City facilities to 550,000 sq. ft., build another site on 100 acres in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, and create more than 500 additional jobs in the next couple years. With this round we’ll be able to significantly expand our capabilities and create new battery materials in the US for the first time. ",{"type":159},{"type":159,"content":7329},[7330],{"text":7331,"type":164},"We’re grateful to our new and existing  partners who have joined us in the mission to create a fully closed-loop battery materials supply chain to power our sustainable future. We look forward to being a key supplier of the critical materials that build the world’s electric vehicles and clean energy products!",[5906,3793,5558,6666],"series-c-funding-700-million","news\u002Fseries-c-funding-700-million","2021-07-28",-80,[],"9048f470-37e0-4403-861e-9a69ab18632e","2021-07-28T15:08:00.000Z",[],1778710649747]