Tesla co-founder JB Straubel has built an EV-battery colossus in the scrublands of Nevada. He spent the day giving me the first look at everything @RedwoodMat has been building. It starts with *30 acres* of old batteries headed headed for recycling 🧵
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Redwood's industrial campus is a 300-acre slope of buildings in various stages of completion. We followed cell phones and EV batteries recycled into 2500-pound bags of fluffy white lithium, then re-made into delicate foils and cathode CAM—the most valuable EV components 2/
@tsrandall @RedwoodMat aren’t they building a new factory in north carolina also?