Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel Built an EV Battery Colossus to Rival China

Posted by maherbeg on Thursday April 18, 2024 @12:44PM
from the bloomberg.com dept.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-18/redwood-material-s-nevada-ev-battery-recycling-facility-attempts-to-rival-china

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Re:Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel Built an EV Battery Colossus... by noxon on Thursday April 18, 2024 @01:29PM (#40078614)

https://archive.ph/GfQrf

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Re:Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel Built an EV Battery Colossus... by sschueller on Thursday April 18, 2024 @01:33PM (#40078647)

"Co-Founder", He joined Tesla almost 1 year after Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded Tesla.

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Re:Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel Built an EV Battery Colossus... by gabrielsroka on Thursday April 18, 2024 @04:39PM (#40080486)

> A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five (Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk and Straubel) to call themselves co-founders.[13]

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla,_Inc.>

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Re:Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel Built an EV Battery Colossus... by metadat on Thursday April 18, 2024 @09:50PM (#40082711)

This is a technicality, in the grand scheme of things.

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Re:Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel Built an EV Battery Colossus... by ra on Friday April 19, 2024 @07:52AM (#40085646)

Recycling 98% of the key minerals in EV batteries profitably. That's a big deal, no?

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