Pallets of depleted lithium-ion batteries at JB Straubel’s Redwood Elements are completely ready for recycling.
Source: CNBC
Redwood Elements, the battery-recycling startup launched by Tesla board member JB Straubel, just lately nabbed Tesla’s vice president of powertrain engineering, Colin Campbell, to provide as chief technology officer.
Primarily based in Carson Metropolis, Nevada, Redwood was established by Straubel in 2017 while he was still serving as Tesla’s CTO. Straubel resigned from Tesla in 2019 to concentration on Redwood.
Campbell declared the move on LinkedIn on Monday, capping a 17-calendar year tenure performing for Elon Musk’s electrical motor vehicle corporation in a wide variety of engineering and management roles. He thanked his previous colleagues at Tesla for a “when-in-a-life span experience.”
“At Redwood, I will proceed to get the job done on electrification — but this time, ensuring wide EV and cleanse power adoption by solving problems additional upstream!” Campbell wrote. “Redwood’s mission is to develop a circular battery source chain, localizing the current fragmented method by developing crucial battery components at scale in the US for the 1st time — and from an at any time-growing sum of recycled articles.”
Redwood turns conclude-of-lifetime electric powered automobile batteries and scrap from vehicle factories into raw components and components to make new battery cells. Straubel informed CNBC in February that the corporation also blends “sustainably mined materials” in its manufacturing procedures.
Campbell’s departure from Tesla follows an announcement before this month that the firm’s finance chief, Zach Kirkhorn, was stepping down, to be changed by Tesla accounting chief Vaibhav Taneja, who now retains both of those the chief financial officer and accounting job, in accordance to Tesla’s shareholder disclosure.
Redwood has lured major expertise away from Tesla for yrs. One more govt at Redwood, running chief Kevin Kassekert, previously served as vice president of people and locations at Tesla. Much more than 120 people at the moment perform at Straubel’s corporation following earlier performing for Tesla, in accordance to LinkedIn data.
Straubel, who is credited as a co-founder of Tesla, was elected by the automaker’s shareholders previously this yr to serve as an unbiased director on the board.
Tesla did not quickly respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
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