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Rivian and Redwood Materials Expand Partnership to Span the Lifecycle of the Battery
Redwood will recycle Rivian battery scrap and end-of-life packs while adding stationary storage at its factory to speed access to power.
- On Wednesday, American automaker Rivian and energy technology company Redwood Materials announced an expanded partnership to recycle production scrap and deploy stationary battery storage at Rivian's manufacturing plant in Normal, Illinois.
- Manufacturers and data centers increasingly face years-long waits for grid connections, prompting a shift toward on-site energy solutions. Redwood Materials Founder and CEO JB Straubel wrote, "Connecting to the grid can take years."
- Redwood collects retired EV battery packs through Rivian's nationwide service network, evaluating each for energy storage repurposing or recycling. The company recovers over 95 percent of critical minerals like lithium, nickel, cobalt, and copper.
- Building on an existing 10-megawatt-hour installation at the Normal, Illinois factory, the partnership utilizes repurposed packs. "Every Rivian battery pack that comes back to us is a potential source of domestic grid energy storage," Straubel said.
- The collaboration addresses the "underlying problem" of "speed to power" in the AI-fueled race for electricity. By integrating recycling and storage into one system, the companies provide a model for manufacturers to bypass traditional infrastructure constraints.
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