Redwood Materials, JB Straubel Keynote at Benchmark Battery Gigafactories 2022
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- Опубліковано 10 сер 2022
- JB Straubel, Founder & CEO of Redwood Materials and Tesla co-founder & former CTO joined as Keynote Guest of Honor at Benchmark Battery Gigafactories USA 2022 in Washington DC.
I admire JB's focus and dedication and I hope he and redwood are successful. We're rooting for you guys!
I guess. I'm just tired of the guy addressing elon every time he talks to introduce himself
@@ArkansasRealEstate I bet he feels almost obligated to mention Elon because if he doesn’t someone will say they are no longer talking or some other nonsense.
Forget rooting, how do I invest in them?
Redwood please open up investment opportunity to retail investors 🙏
Yes! Or at least "qualified investors"...
The qualified investor thing is such a rigging of the game
Yes, please go public! It would be the only company other than tesla I'd put money into!
You don’t need them to go public if you want to give them money. Just send them a check. They’re losing money right now and they’re a long way from profit.
Great talk!
Today we just found out that due to geopolitic, it's better to keep important supply chain in country however Tesla and JB has been preparing this for years. They are really ahead of the curve. Visionary...in the flesh.
Always enjoy listening to JB, the guy gets things done.
How does Redwood Materials only have 1.15k subs? This company is going to help to change the world and create sustainment in battery re-manufacturing.
Straubel is turning Redwood into a tier one car manufacturing supplier for battery, it's exactly what NA needs!
JB is equally as inspiring as Musk. I would love Redwood to go public as I imagine his company will scale as quickly as tesla Gigafactories given he's lived through Tesla's expansion and remains on the board.
🤗👍THANK YOU JB ….FOR STARTING REDWOOD MATERIALS AND THANK ALL YOUR WORKERS…FOR WORKING SO HARD 😅😎💚💚💚
Excellent. This won't initially get many views/likes but as the years go by this should become textbook iconic massive how and why to recycle. I've been keenly waiting to hear this kind of summary of where Redwood is at and how they see things could go in the future.
Can't wait to buy this stock.
JB is a good speaker, very convincing and rousing.
Yes, but why did they record room audio? He was clearly mic'd... It was painful to listen to.
@@JohnOverstreet Just the first 6 minutes or so was bad audio, the rest was good I thought.
As a Tesla, Lucid, Polestar & Chargepoint investor I'd love to also invest in Redwood Materials. Great talk JB. What you are doing is great for the planet.
Two comments. 1. JB, THIS is America. This is what America at its best looks like. Thank you a thousand times over. 2. One of the very last questions was re: how the used batteries would return for this repurposing; what would be the logistics therein? Suggestion; at least initially thousands of current auto dealerships are seeing their business models upended. Could they not benefit from a symbiotic relationship by serving as a go-between hub for these spent materials that in return generates them some cash flow? Thanks.
Dealerships are dead, pointless middleman
Think the effort should be on improved usage. Reuse, repurpose and re-idea ....
The old models are clearly not working anymore.
“We don’t do things because they are easy...” -JFK
It’s what we do. We create tools and solve problems. We’re human beings...doings...solvings...
The greatest force in the cosmos is “self-worth.”
THIS is how (and why) we achieve our most vital need: Self-worth.
“The things that seem like the least important for our survival are the very things that make us humans.” -Savas Dimopoulos, Physicist.
Finally... we need an all out emphasis in getting us out of the carbon making business by bringing all the battery materials under a single roof here in the US. Hope others also get into this mission or Straubel creates more.
Excellent!
BTW: a "closed loop economy," along with the inevitability of UBI (by mid-century or sooner), will require new and better economic thinking.
One EV of between 55-200kwh could supply the batteries for between 100-400 electric bicycles. America needs to address its car -dependent city planning rules and allow these critical materials to be used more effectively.
Bicycles are great in other countries and maybe a few cities in the usa
Tho in America they are the most dangerous means of transportation
The only thing that is more dangerous is walking on a public road
Tho in reality very few actually ride bicycles that is the only reason that there is only 1000 deaths a year if more people started riding them the death rate would go up
@@rugbeaters1 Maybe you haven't heard of Bike-ways. Bike trails around and away from cars.
Both/and
Great talk, good luck
The future is here.
Thank you, for all of your contributions
Taking metals at the end of their life cycle and breath life back into them for reuse! Melt, assay, refine for repurpose is the way to go.
I realize it’s multiple decades away, but I wonder how mining companies will slow production once we have a near closed loop of battery materials.
Mining sites take roughly a decade to ramp right now, and we need to ramp up as fast as possible. It seems mining companies will ramp up, and then need to slow production within a decade or two.
I am pro battery and BEVs, and Redwood… just a thought. Am I over thinking this?
We'll always find something we need to mine for. But I wonder if at some point we'll extract carbon from the atmosphere to use as a material.
Nickel has many other uses.
Phosphates are primarily used for fertilizers.
Cobalt is used in many alloys.
Iron is used everywhere.
Manganese I don't know.
Lithium has not many uses I know of.
Also, deposits only contain so much. Once price drops, many will just close.
Typical mine life is about 40 years so will naturally fade out as recycling ramps to closed loop.
I want to invest in the company 🤔
Metal foils are relatively easy to recover. The ternary metal oxide mix is a bit more interesting....electrophoretic separation ?
I don't know 🤔
I'm Nigerian and I am looking at going into the energy business and mining. I wish I could get to contact Mr jb. It would be a great source of help.
Audio improves after a few minutes
All I require to know is when I, a nobody - a small low net worth single individual investor can invest in the company.
Can someone explain JB‘s explanation on graphite at 13:13 ? Why doesnt he show the graphite growth/deficite in the beginning. Is graphite not an issue at all?
You can easily Google that, friend. It's almost a non issue, graphite is very abundant.
@@andyb6851 Batteries require high-quality graphite.
But yeah, still abundant.
Less than 10,000 views!? 🤣
Lithium, copper and nickel seem like massive opportunities
Why not recycle the graphite out of the batteries especially if the cost is 4 times that of the copper foil needed for anode??
Given the tear-downs of the M3, MY battery packs....how easily are they recycled or even repaired ?
Are you dependent on shredding or something less energy intensive to recover the Al/Cu foils ?
The huge amounts of foam used by tesla....how easily is that removed ?
Yes, grind them up, separate them by some means, re-use them.
@@jeffpicken5057 Ease of re-use must be viewed as a threat to the manufacturer.
@@jeffpicken5057 ...grinding is a waste of energy
2014: JB says there's no projected shortage of raw materials for EVs. ua-cam.com/video/zWSox7mLbyE/v-deo.html
2022: JB says exactly the opposite. Go to 5:59 of this video.
This is one of those times where having a brain to understand context is key.
2014 video he's referring to the *existence* of the raw materials. At the time critics were trying to say that there isn't enough lithium on earth to support electric vehicles. There is.
2022 video he's referring to the *availability* (via mining and refining) of raw materials. We need to get to the existing materials faster.
Try to rub a couple brain cells together next time.
@@GregHassler Lighten up, Francis. Your explanation is good, your delivery not so much. She's just asking a valid question.
tesla car good
Granted, I’m only 25 minutes into this video but so far so haven’t heard them say they have actually fully recycled material and had it made into a new battery, nor have I heard how much money they’re losing in this endeavor so far. It isn’t going to reduce the cost of the batteries if we’re losing a lot of money in the process. It costs us pennies on the dollar to mine this stuff in China and Africa. I’m guessing it’s going to cost quite a few American dollars to reprocess in American labor markets under EPA and OSHA oversight.
Dude is Benchmark, no ?
Simon David Morres , yes I thought it was.
JB was onboard way before Musk. Musk was never a founder.
poor audio
(If you can be patient) once you get past the 1 minute mark it improves. This was a recording Benchmark was kind enough to share - not recorded initially for broad distribution but we wanted to make it available
Bs. The graph starts at 300