JB Straubel, Founder & CEO of Redwood Materials and Tesla co-founder & former CTO joined as Keynote Guest of Honor at Benchmark Battery Gigafactories USA 2022 in Washington DC.
@@ArkansasRealEstate I bet he feels almost obligated to mention Elon because if he doesn’t someone will say they are no longer talking or some other nonsense.
You don’t need them to go public if you want to give them money. Just send them a check. They’re losing money right now and they’re a long way from profit.
Today we just found out that due to geopolitic, it's better to keep important supply chain in country however Tesla and JB has been preparing this for years. They are really ahead of the curve. Visionary...in the flesh.
Excellent. This won't initially get many views/likes but as the years go by this should become textbook iconic massive how and why to recycle. I've been keenly waiting to hear this kind of summary of where Redwood is at and how they see things could go in the future.
JB is equally as inspiring as Musk. I would love Redwood to go public as I imagine his company will scale as quickly as tesla Gigafactories given he's lived through Tesla's expansion and remains on the board.
As a Tesla, Lucid, Polestar & Chargepoint investor I'd love to also invest in Redwood Materials. Great talk JB. What you are doing is great for the planet.
Two comments. 1. JB, THIS is America. This is what America at its best looks like. Thank you a thousand times over. 2. One of the very last questions was re: how the used batteries would return for this repurposing; what would be the logistics therein? Suggestion; at least initially thousands of current auto dealerships are seeing their business models upended. Could they not benefit from a symbiotic relationship by serving as a go-between hub for these spent materials that in return generates them some cash flow? Thanks.
“We don’t do things because they are easy...” -JFK It’s what we do. We create tools and solve problems. We’re human beings...doings...solvings... The greatest force in the cosmos is “self-worth.” THIS is how (and why) we achieve our most vital need: Self-worth. “The things that seem like the least important for our survival are the very things that make us humans.” -Savas Dimopoulos, Physicist.
Finally... we need an all out emphasis in getting us out of the carbon making business by bringing all the battery materials under a single roof here in the US. Hope others also get into this mission or Straubel creates more.
Excellent! BTW: a "closed loop economy," along with the inevitability of UBI (by mid-century or sooner), will require new and better economic thinking.
One EV of between 55-200kwh could supply the batteries for between 100-400 electric bicycles. America needs to address its car -dependent city planning rules and allow these critical materials to be used more effectively.
Bicycles are great in other countries and maybe a few cities in the usa Tho in America they are the most dangerous means of transportation The only thing that is more dangerous is walking on a public road Tho in reality very few actually ride bicycles that is the only reason that there is only 1000 deaths a year if more people started riding them the death rate would go up
I realize it’s multiple decades away, but I wonder how mining companies will slow production once we have a near closed loop of battery materials. Mining sites take roughly a decade to ramp right now, and we need to ramp up as fast as possible. It seems mining companies will ramp up, and then need to slow production within a decade or two. I am pro battery and BEVs, and Redwood… just a thought. Am I over thinking this?
Nickel has many other uses. Phosphates are primarily used for fertilizers. Cobalt is used in many alloys. Iron is used everywhere. Manganese I don't know. Lithium has not many uses I know of. Also, deposits only contain so much. Once price drops, many will just close.
Can someone explain JB‘s explanation on graphite at 13:13 ? Why doesnt he show the graphite growth/deficite in the beginning. Is graphite not an issue at all?
Given the tear-downs of the M3, MY battery packs....how easily are they recycled or even repaired ? Are you dependent on shredding or something less energy intensive to recover the Al/Cu foils ? The huge amounts of foam used by tesla....how easily is that removed ?
Granted, I’m only 25 minutes into this video but so far so haven’t heard them say they have actually fully recycled material and had it made into a new battery, nor have I heard how much money they’re losing in this endeavor so far. It isn’t going to reduce the cost of the batteries if we’re losing a lot of money in the process. It costs us pennies on the dollar to mine this stuff in China and Africa. I’m guessing it’s going to cost quite a few American dollars to reprocess in American labor markets under EPA and OSHA oversight.
2014: JB says there's no projected shortage of raw materials for EVs. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zWSox7mLbyE.html 2022: JB says exactly the opposite. Go to 5:59 of this video.
This is one of those times where having a brain to understand context is key. 2014 video he's referring to the *existence* of the raw materials. At the time critics were trying to say that there isn't enough lithium on earth to support electric vehicles. There is. 2022 video he's referring to the *availability* (via mining and refining) of raw materials. We need to get to the existing materials faster. Try to rub a couple brain cells together next time.
Redwood is a great company with an amazing future, but anyone with financial experience knows Newsom is horrible for any future! Drop him from your videos quickly.
