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JB Straubel, founder and CEO of Redwood Materials, speaks about battery recycling at CES
JB Straubel, founder and CEO of Redwood Materials, speaks about battery recycling at CES
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Redwood Materials' campus in Nevada, with its new energy storage system on the left, a solar array in the center, and a Google data center on the far right.
Redwood Materials' campus in Nevada, with its new energy storage system on the left, a solar array in the center, and a Google data center on the far right.
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EV charging
Charging times have been cited as a reason that consumers are holding off buying EVs.
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Employees working on a production line.
A factory for lithium-battery products in Yichang, Hubei province, China.
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A coal-fired power plant in China's Zhejiang province.
A coal-fired power plant in China's Zhejiang province.
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One of Sri Lanka's oldest mines holds valuable deposits of graphite, a critical mineral that makes up the largest part of EV batteries. But even though the country produces the world's purest form, experts say Sri Lanka isn't a global competitor.