Turbo ArabA partnership between Toyota and a co-founder of Tesla to recycle electric car batteries
Toyota has partnered with Redwood Materials, a battery recycling company run by Tesla co-founder GB Straubel.
The project is working to collect and recycle electric car batteries. The plan is to take old, worn out batteries and refurbish or disassemble them so that their materials can be used to create new batteries.
Redwood specifically plans to produce materials for the anodes and cathodes - two key components for building the battery cell for electric cars.
The company's ultimate goal is to create a "closed-loop electric vehicle supply chain," which means it takes batteries from old electric vehicles and turns them into batteries for new ones, overcoming supply chain problems.
While Toyota is currently releasing its first long-range battery-powered vehicle, new vehicles are not currently the focus of the partnership's efforts, given that their batteries are still relatively new.
Instead, Toyota and Redwood are focusing on the "first wave of battery electric vehicles," which are more than 20 years old and near the end of their life.
Mostly, that means a first-generation Toyota Prius in California is the target. Redwood says that in the future, it wants to conduct some operations near Toyota's recently announced North American battery plant on the East Coast, likely referring to the plant. Located in North Carolina.
It is worth noting that Redwood's technology and methods for recycling car batteries are not entirely true, as the company just launched its program to deal with electric cars that expired in February, with Ford and Volvo, while Redwood plans to deal with batteries from vehicles for a while, its ability to Doing this on a large scale has been relatively untested.
The company said Tuesday that it receives roughly six gigawatt-hours of batteries annually for recycling — and it hopes to produce 100 gigawatt-hours of components by 2025 and five times that by 2030.
Those plans sound ambitious, to say the least, but as Bloomberg points out, there's plenty of incentive. Making electric car batteries is too expensive, and some companies are struggling to do it on a large scale, hampering their ability to make electric vehicles. It doesn't look like the process will get any cheaper. anytime soon, so there is certainly an incentive for automakers to look to and help fund recycling efforts.
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