California is looking to “produce” its own lithium supplies, from the Salton Sea. They’ve formed a Commission (a good friend of mine is on it) to oversee it, and I’m hopeful that appropriate environmental safeguards will be in place.
- Mark Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone > On Sep 14, 2021, at 5:46 PM, Peri Hartman via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Very ambitious. Can Straubel et al do it ? I presume he can front a lot of > money, so that helps. And I presume he's not really inventing anything. > Perhaps the biggest challenge will be sourcing raw materials. The finished > product (batteries) is environmentally clean but strip mining is another > matter. > > Exciting. Best of luck ! > > Peri > > << Annoyed by leaf blowers ? https://quietcleanseattle.org/ >> > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "cleanair--- via EV" <[email protected]> > To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: 14-Sep-21 15:35:52 > Subject: [EVDL] J.B. Straubel in the news - Move making cathodes from Asia to > the USA > >> Lets support a tsunami of battery cathodes made in the USA.This should be of >> strategic interest. >> Danny A. >> >> https://www.mining.com/web/a-tesla-co-founder-aims-to-build-an-entire-us-battery-industry/ >> >> >> Redwood Materials Inc., the battery recycling company created by Tesla Inc. >> co-founder J.B. Straubel, has been keeping a big secret: It isn’t really a >> recycling company. >> >> Sure, Redwood has risen quickly to become the biggest lithium-ion battery >> recycler in the U.S.. But Straubel didn’t leave Tesla in 2019 just to clean >> out America’s junk drawers. His broader goal, described to Bloomberg for the >> first time, is to move a huge chunk of the battery-component industry from >> Asia to the U.S. >> >> >> “It’s both inspiring and terrifying to see so many nations and car companies >> announcing their shift to electric vehicles,” Straubel said. “But there’s a >> massive gap in what needs to happen.” >> >> To fill that gap, Straubel has set out to build one of the largest battery >> materials factories in the world. Redwood, which currently operates three >> facilities in Nevada, is searching for a location farther east to build a >> new million-square-foot factory. At a cost of well over $1 billion, >> according to Straubel, the addition will enable Redwood to become a major >> U.S. producer of cathodes. (Every battery has two electrodes — an anode and >> a cathode — between which trillions of charged lithium atoms travel. It’s >> the cathode that largely determines a battery’s cost, performance and >> environmental footprint.) >> >> Straubel says the U.S. factory will produce material for 100 gigawatt hours >> of batteries a year by the end of 2025. That’s enough for about 1.3 million >> long-range vehicles a year, on par with the biggest producers in Asia. By >> 2030, the same facility will ramp up to 500 gigawatt hours a year, he says. >> At today’s prices, that’s $25 billion of cathodes a year. Redwood plans to >> build a similar operation in Europe by 2023. >> >> “These numbers sound insane, but when you look at what the market needs, I’m >> like holy cow — is this even aggressive enough?” Straubel says. “Somebody’s >> got to do this. In fact, we need at least four companies doing similarly >> aggressive, crazy things all in the same timeline.” >> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210914/41ec4651/attachment.html> >> _______________________________________________ >> Address messages to [email protected] >> No other addresses in TO and CC fields >> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >> ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ >> LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
