A bold bet on battery reuse Ford announced a $50 million investment in Redwood Materials, the recycling firm founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, and named Redwood as its exclusive partner for handling end‑of‑life…

Redwood, headquartered in Carson City, Nevada, already processes scrap from Nissan, Specialized e‑bikes, Tesla and Panasonic at the Reno Gigafactory. The partnership expands Redwood’s role from a recycler to a co‑deve…

The mineral bottleneck behind the EV surge The United States is watching the global EV boom with a mixture of optimism and anxiety. The F‑150 Lightning’s debut drew nearly 45,000 pre‑orders in its first 48 hours, a vo…

Payal Sampat, mining programs director at Earthworks, warned that “the way that this has been flipped is, ‘We’re going to need to deal with these climate issues, let’s develop new mines, let’s extract this out as quic…