More than 120 people who previously worked at Tesla now work for JB Straubel’s recycling venture, Redwood Materials according to LinkedIn data.
Redwood Materials recently named Tesla's VP of powertrain engineering, Colin Campbell, to serve as CTO.
Based in Carson City, Nevada, Redwood was founded by Straubel in 2017 while he was still serving as Tesla CTO. Straubel resigned from Tesla in 2019 to focus on Redwood.on Monday, capping a 17-year tenure working for Elon Musk's electric vehicle company in a variety of engineering and leadership roles. He thanked his former colleagues at Tesla for a"once-in-a-lifetime experience."
Redwood turns end-of-life electric vehicle batteries and scrap from car factories into raw materials and components to make new battery cells. Straubel told CNBC in February that the company also blends"sustainably mined material" in its manufacturing processes.
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