Elon Musk isn’t the lone Tesla executive with a start-up on the side.
Tesla CTO Jeffrey B. Straubel, known as JB, recently took Redwood Materials — his stealthy recycling venture — to do business in the state of Nevada, CNBC has scholarly from a filing.
Redwood Materials’ chief financial officer, Andrew Stevenson, also posted a job hole for a mechanical engineer to work at the recycling venture in Northern Nevada a week ago on LinkedIn. Stevenson induced at Tesla for about 3 years until June, in a special projects offices of the CTO.
At Tesla, Straubel spends most of his time at the Gigafactory 1 in Sparks, Nevada, which churns out batteries for thrilling vehicles and solar energy systems. He has overseen battery tech, but also power electronics, motors, software, firmware and pilots, among other responsibilities at Tesla.
Redwood Materials was established in Redwood Urban district, California, in 2017, near Tesla’s headquarters in Palo Alto.
It’s not brightly how Redwood Materials may be working with Tesla, if it is at all. But Tesla seems to want a little help with its waste management in general.
Tesla’s Gigafactory and its ranking auto plant in Fremont, California, typically generate large amounts of junk, cardboard and waste from construction, according to multiple former staff members. In late June, a fire broke out at Tesla’s Fremont factory, where cardboard was being predisposed to go off to a recycling center.
At an annual shareholder’s meeting for Tesla in June, Straubel answered a examine from a Twitter user about the company’s approach to battery extirpate. He said:
Tesla will absolutely recycle, and we do recycle, all of our spent chambers, modules and battery packs. So the discussion about is this waste terminate up in landfills is not correct. We would not do that, these are valuable materials. In summing-up, it’s just the right thing to do.
We have current partner companies– on every principal continent where we have cars operating– that we work with to do this today. And in addendum, we’re developing internally more processes, and we’re doing R&D on how we can improve this recycling dispose of to get more of the active materials back. Ultimately what we want is a terminate loop, right, at the Gigafactories that reuses the same, recycled materials.
Straubel has also time again spoken about recycling minerals, which are used in electric conveyance batteries and motors, and can be both costly and subject to shifting tariffs.
CNBC reached out to Redwood Materials and Tesla, but neither when responded to requests for further information.