Redwood Materials, a Nevada-based battery recycling company, has announced that it has partnered with General Motors’ Ultium Cells joint venture to recycle production scrap from its facilities.
Reclaiming cathode and anode material – as well as cell scrap – from the Ultium Cells Warren plant in Ohio and the Ultium Cells Spring Hill plant in Tennessee, Redwood Materials is now set to receive the majority of the scrap material from manufacturing processes.
It’s worth noting that following this latest contract, Redwood now boasts partnerships with most of North America’s battery cell manufacturers.
For reference, both of the Ultium facilities boast 2.8 million square feet of operations, and are expected to produce a combined 80-GWh worth of battery cells annually. In fact, production at the two Ultium Cells plants is already underway, while the Ultium Cells Lansing facility in Michigan is still under construction.
Notably, battery cell manufacturing currently results in roughly 10,000 tons of scrap material annually. That being said, production efficiency continues to improve.
In other Ultium Cells-related news, GM CEO and Chair Mary Barra recently reported a 300-percent increase in the production of Ultium battery modules over the past six months. Of course, this explosion in production capacity comes at a good time, as The General’s rollout of its all-electric vehicle lineup has been continuously hamstrung by restricted Ultium battery production. Beyond this positive development, the Detroit-based automaker has plans to double battery production capacities by the end of Summer 2024.
To further this point, General Motors worked through an Ultium battery constraint earlier this year that was due to issues with an automation equipment supplier. To remedy this problem, GM sent engineering teams to improve deliveries, and also added manual battery module production lines to several EV assembly facilities. This expansion supported increased on-site battery module assembly by streamlining the production process and improving overall efficiency.
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Is the U. S. Electric grid really ready to support EV’s? If you think yes any proof? I think 30 to 50 Years from now! FACT IS: If 50% of the vehicles on the road today were driven the same daily distances and replaced by EV’s it would require 200 new nuclear power plants the size of the Palo Verde plant to keep them charged and operating! I can’t see the EPA 🍏 Greenies ever approving that not to mention cost$ and construction time.
What say you now?
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What say me? What’s your source for your “fact”?
What about GM-NANORAMIC collaboration ?
I wonder if the nanoramic tech would work with sodium based battery tech?