BMW To Get Battery Recycling Support From JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 21:23:32 +0000

Maybe once upon a time, concern about what happened to EV batteries at end of life was legit. However, it was quickly apparent that the vast majority of an old battery could still be useful if recycled, and that those materials are highly valuable. About 95% (or even more) of … [continued]

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Tesla Leads Auto World In Operating Margin, Model Y Best Selling Car In World — 17 Tesla Meeting Highlights

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 05:33:37 +0000

Tesla’s 2023 annual shareholder meeting was a few hours ago. Many of the things presented there were already presented in the company’s Master Plan Part 3, Investor Day presentation, and previous quarterly shareholder conference calls. However, let’s look at a few of the highlights. First of all, as many have been hoping, or at least […]

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Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel On Racing To Scale Up Battery Recycling

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2023 19:30:38 +0000

“Now is our only time to really prepare and react,” says Straubel. “The scale of all this is so big that even when we’re running flat out as fast as we can, with all that urgency that you felt and hopefully more, it’ll still take us decades.”

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Tesla Co-Founder Now Processing EV Battery Minerals

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 20:02:30 +0000

battery recyclingElectric vehicle batteries are quickly becoming one of the most important commodities in the USA. Mineral processing operations are largely happening overseas, but one US company created by a Tesla founder and previous CTO is now delving into cathode and anode processing. Tesla co-founder JB Straubel is currently in the battery recycling business with his […]

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Advice For EV Startups From Tesla Co-Founders JB Straubel & Elon Musk

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 15:15:23 +0000

https://cleantechies.com/jb-straubel/Tesla co-founders JB Straubel and Elon Musk shared some sage advice for other EV startups this week. The advice itself was an answer to a question posed by Peter Campbell, who interviewed both co-founders at Financial Time’s Future of the Car summit. Campbell pointed out that there were a lot of other EV startups all […]

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The Lunch With Elon Musk That Led To Tesla

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 14:18:44 +0000

The lunch that led to Tesla is a story that Tesla CEO and co-founder Elon Musk and Tesla co-founder JB Straubel shared in their recent interview. The two (of five) co-founders were interviewed by the Financial Times at their Future of the Car summit this week, and many of us tuned in live to watch […]

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We Should Thank The GM EV1 (And Its Death) For Tesla

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 04:40:17 +0000

Considering how much major automakers are struggling to develop their own commercially viable EVs and catch up with Tesla, it’s ironic that several of these brands did produce EVs back in the 1990s, but cancelled those models, leaving the field wide open for the California upstart

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Origins of Tesla, Tesla Roadster Disruptive Tech Graph, Range Anxiety Anxiety — Tesla Google Flashbacks from 2014

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:23:05 +0000

What was the media writing about Tesla 5 years ago? What was CleanTechnica writing about Tesla 5 years ago? How does all of this compare to Tesla headlines today

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