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Redwood Materials, the battery-recycling startup founded by Tesla board member JB Straubel, recently nabbed Tesla's vice president of powertrain engineering, Colin Campbell, to serve as chief technology officer. Based in Carson City, Nevada, Redwood was founded by Straubel in 2017 while he was still serving as Tesla's CTO. Straubel resigned from Tesla in 2019 to focus on Redwood. Another executive at Redwood, operating chief Kevin Kassekert, previously served as vice president of people and places at Tesla. More than 120 people currently work at Straubel's company after previously working for Tesla, according to LinkedIn data.
Persons: JB Straubel, Colin Campbell, Straubel, Campbell, Tesla, Zach Kirkhorn, Vaibhav Taneja, Redwood, Kevin Kassekert Organizations: Materials, Tesla, LinkedIn, Elon, CNBC, Redwood Locations: Carson City , Nevada, Redwood
Redwood Materials was founded by former Tesla CTO and cofounder JB Straubel in 2017 during his tenure at Elon Musk's car company. The battery-recycling startup will use the funding to build and expand its battery recycling facility outside of Reno, Nevada. Redwood Materials has attained a $2 billion loan commitment from the Department of Energy, the agency announced on Thursday via its loan programs office. As CNBC previously reported, last year Redwood Materials struck a multi-billion dollar deal with Tesla supplier Panasonic. Redwood Materials has a pilot line up and running for production of anode copper foil in Nevada already.
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