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David Roberts
Can "second life" EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage?
59 minutes Posted Oct 22, 2025 at 4:02 pm.
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Redwood Materials has long dominated EV battery recycling, but what if they could drain every last drop of energy from those batteries before recycling them? I talk with the company’s CTO, Colin Campbell, about Redwood Energy, a new division doing just that by deploying used batteries as grid-scale storage at a massive scale. This isn’t just a side project; it’s a plan to turn a massive wave of incoming used batteries into a key resource for the grid.



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