How Tesla’s Battery Mastermind Is Tackling EV's Biggest Problem
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- Опубликовано: 26 май 2024
- Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere - in phones, laptops, tablets, cameras and increasingly cars. Demand for lithium-ion batteries has risen sharply in the past five years and is expected to grow from a $44.2 billion market in 2020 to a $94.4 billion market by 2025, mostly due to the boom in electric cars. And a shortage of lithium-ion batteries is looming in the U.S.
Former Tesla CTO and Elon Musk's right-hand man, JB Straubel, started Redwood Materials in 2017 to help address the need for more raw materials and to solve the problem of e-waste. The company recycles end-of-life batteries and then supplies battery makers and auto companies with materials in short supply as EV production surges around the world. Straubel gave CNBC an inside look at its first recycling facility in Carson City, Nevada. Watch the video to learn why battery recycling will be an essential part in making EV production more sustainable.
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How Tesla’s Battery Mastermind Is Tackling EVs Biggest Problem
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This guy worked at a company, saw what was to come so he left the company and created his own to solved that problem. Genius!
God bless the American way!
@juanka galindo I think you are forgetting the abundance of minerals both in space and on the ocean floor. We have nothing to worry about
@juanka galindo there is plenty of minerals for everyone on earth. plus, dont forget they are making electric cars to transition to sustainable energy to protect the planet.
He never left Tesla.He is in advisory role in Tesla to date
@@baore2422 Those resources are hundreds of years out of reach. Mostly for the cost to get them would make it too expensive to pass the cost to consumers. they are not a solution and the next generation has plenty of things to worry about.
The fact that he’s recycling these materials has made my day.
These CEOs are monsters
Yep, thats what we need. Shame cell phone manufactures are not on board. Ever tried to replace the battery in your cell phone or when you need to upgrade? Try and remove the battery and send it to the recycling collection?
He could have been involved in recycling batteries a long, long time ago.
This is late in the game.
Too, too late.
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Its too little too late. The process is slow and expensive, its cheaper to get it from an original source than a recycled one. Although it is true that we should try something and lessons learned from this endeavor will help solve the problem down the road, its just not enough to keep up with the absolute onslaught going to hit starting in the next decade.
My sister and I were literally talking about battery waste for electric cars and wondering if they'd ever find a solution to recycle them the other day. I am so glad that there is a solution.
😂😂
Me too ! I've thought about this for years
Less then 5% of lithium batteries are recycled nowadays
There isn't a solution still, they are just postponing throwing the waste.
CRYPTO IS DISTURBING THE ECONOMY
I like the Redwood guy. He seems super nice - and also he's working to change a big liability into a big asset. Amazing!
He’s in it for the money, just trying to be noble
@@generalx5220 Don't tell the truth. That will make you unpopular.
When did it become ok to just slander someone for being successful? I worked for JB. JB to Elon is Steve Wozniak to Steve Jobs. Idealistic technical wunderkind overlooked for his contribution. And also a very good man.
There's an interview online of him at his Nevadan house. It is not the house of someone just trying to make a buck.
Lies again? Battery Inflation
He hit the nail on the head when he said “we need to UNBUILD everything we BUILD”
Unbuilding cost money. Why spend money to unbuild when we can throw away and no cost?
@@MrMannyhw because with recycling we will be able to get the cost of lithium down by an estimated 43% and the environmental impact greatly reduced
@@MrMannyhw unfortunately that seems to be the rule of thumb that brought us here.
@@MrMannyhw is seeking attention. Mom went out and left you all alone ?
@@rincam5 Well Said my friend
Well presented. Without question, without recycling, we are digging our own environmental grave. Thanks
US has got to end its petroleum plastic era.
Plastic can only be recycled 1-2 times and it not even worth recycling old plastic for new. Plastic is toxic junk. It has No organic value & when burnt it causes bad birth defects in the whole area.
Even with recycling, we are digging our own environmental grave. The guy says at the end that there are no alternative... Well, yes, there is an alternative : reduce consumption. But it would take a redical change from our economical system. And the mix of neoliberalism/oligarchy/corporatocracy that we are living in right now doesn't allow for that kind of change.
@@bengagnon2894 exactly right.
@@bengagnon2894 The secret is to educate all the women in the world as well as give them the freedom to do what they like just like some countries allow for. Once this happens the world population will start to drop causing less pollution.
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This guy deserves a medal! Normally the problems with EOL get ignored until it's way to late to come up with a good viable solution and starting early around this time gives me hope in humanity!
This is what every manufacturer should consider when they create a product. It’s end to end recyclability.
This guy has come from the future to save us all:)
ASININE......recycling is POINTLESS because selfish assholes are OVERPOPULATING THE EARTH. The Earth is FINITE. All world evils can be traced to ONE CAUSE: too many people consuming finite resources. War, Poverty, Famine, Pollution, Plague are all caused by TOO MANY PEOPLE. The solution? Only allow the Best of the Best to breed, and require stringent tests. Healthy, sane, financially stable, educated, contributing to civilization with a valuable skill, good DNA that we want to pass on. Politically Correct fanatics and religious fanatics have a vested interest in a huge mass of starving poor unhappy people that they can manipulate. Don't be fooled. Only MANDATORY limits on population will solve anything.,
It’s up to us to demand it from the various industries.
It’s making the producer of the waste responsible for its end of life reuse.
He’s the type of guy that does his dishes right after eating. We need more people like him.
These CEOs are monsters
Thanks
And is probably working on an idea for self-cleaning dishes (I'm almost there with a piece of bread and an occasional lick or 2.)
@Kate Simpson I think we both know who the real fool is here.....
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Recycling batteries is the best realistic circular economy example.
JAPAN has had Circular Recycling for over a DECADE now.
These CEOs are monsters
as long as there's low wage workers to do the disassembly of the device first right?
@@MonkeySpecs301 or robotics. Sometimes robotics is cheaper than cheap labor due to the amount of work that can be done/hr
@@Santospirito007 Eventually robots will be cheaper and better than people every time, we are just at the start of automation.
By removing the data, they mean banging the device with a hammer. 😂
"Shows up to Tesla with a duffle bag full of old cellphone batteries" let's talk business.
😆😆😆😆😆
0:00 Introduction
2:16 Why recycling is necessary
6:20 How it works
10:12 Why it’s profitable
15:02 What’s next
how it works: we get it, break it down, and sell it to our costumers... oh look who we are partnering with
Comment for the algorithm
U r a legend
@Northern lights indica 247 are you trolling?
You are a good egg
Former Tesla employees seem to regularly start their own successful businesses. Demonstrates their strength of attracting the most innovative/talented people to work for them
just like intel team
Alternatively it demonstrates Tesla’s inability to retain its most valuable resource.
@@handenbramilton That's because they overwork them.
Tesla is still a startup where talented individual comes to learn and gain experience.
Once they do that, they retire from that hectic job.
Except Elon who is a robot.
@@handenbramilton It is impossible to retain long term those employees with a entrepreneur drive. Straubel stayed with Tesla for 15-years, that is a long time.
False
Now THIS is progressing humanity in a positive direction.
If you dont do research i guess...
Narrator: "And how do they break down the batteries"
Redwood guy: "We put them in this machine and out comes the raw materials"
I learned so much.
As a Panasonic Energy North America employee I concur with this. J.B Straubel Redwood Materials will pretty much save the planets raw materials of batteries.
What do you see as their advantage over other recycling companies? Seems like people are trying a bunch of different methods and it's not clear to me who will win.
@@Global_Optimization Location Location Location = Talent Northern Nevada is only 2 hours away from Stanford and Cal State Berkley the amount of quality and quantity of engineers that Northern California's produces is far greater than anywhere else on the planet.
Not to mention we ( Panasonic ) have the best chemical engineers in the world. The Japanese are "battery artists" doing this very decades extremely effective and efficient there dedication passion and work ethic is astonishing. Working along side with Tesla's engineers and Redwoods this is a fine tuned machine over here.
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Boss, wondering what the lowest paid position is out there? Any insight? Thanks,
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Very informative. I love this kind of content. Not every story has to be a drama filled hit piece.
Educational content is good for the 🧠
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I'm glad that there's companies like Redwood recycling batteries.Too much is going into landfills, that can be recycled.
👍👍❤️
This is awesome! I think a lot of people are just like me, we knew there’s a huge problem with used battery. But thank goodness we have someone like him 👍
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Now this is a company worth investing in.
Try American Manganese
Good luck with that, they aren’t public.
I would love to. Keep us updated.
Tesla is way overpriced. Hang on to your shirt.
Redwood aren't public. Because they are Elon Musk Secret Company.
Elon Invest to them secretly.
I really hope, these recycling companies become successful and make a lot of money. Because eWaste is already a huge problem.
It's good for them because there are not many players in the game, but once there are more than the price will go up and it may not even be profitable anymore.
The bigger problem behind pollution is: overpopulation.
@@brahmburgers Overpopulation is a self-defeating problem though.
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@@brahmburgers China tried that, and now is back to a 3 child limit. They've found that limiting families to one child didn't work in any way, economically, spiritually, or physically.
I'm sure all EV recycling companies will do well! There is room for all companies to work to process these discarded batteries in the US. I've invested in ABML, and will look into Redwood Materials. Thx CBNC, and JB Straubel (and Co.).
I work for Li-Cycle in Kingston Ontario! Great place to work
May God bless JB and his endeavors. May JB bless me and take Redwood public.
ASININE......recycling is POINTLESS because selfish assholes are OVERPOPULATING THE EARTH. The Earth is FINITE. All world evils can be traced to ONE CAUSE: too many people consuming finite resources. War, Poverty, Famine, Pollution, Plague are all caused by TOO MANY PEOPLE. The solution? Only allow the Best of the Best to breed, and require stringent tests. Healthy, sane, financially stable, educated, contributing to civilization with a valuable skill, good DNA that we want to pass on. Politically Correct fanatics and religious fanatics have a vested interest in a huge mass of starving poor unhappy people that they can manipulate. Don't be fooled. Only MANDATORY limits on population will solve anything.,
@@noneone8726 take a hit of weed and calm down, it's going to be ok
@@areyouarobotz make sure you recycle it though
They always tell you to recycle you never know how useful it could be down the road. Here it is. To me what they're doing is incredible.
It is obvious. The most concentrated supply of the materials to build lithium batteries will be in old lithium batteries. The problem usually is the materials involved eventually migrate to places within the battery, or form structures, where they can't be regenerated through recharging. But disassembly and processing to separate everything out again will work.
The really interesting thing is if the battery manufacturers start designing for recycling. That would be a step-change in the sustainability of battery technology. At the moment it's all out to keep improving battery technology itself in terms of capacity and recharge and discharge rate, but once that starts reaching limits (which it is), it should come down to how to efficiently recycle the battery so both the scrap value of the battery is high, and the production costs of a new battery is low.
Today our communication primarily relies on batteries in terms of cell phones and cordless phones, cordless phones which sooner or later will be obsolete followed by gasoline cars, so why not seriously start thinking about transforming battery technology. JB has started this process and it shouldn’t be stopped.
You can't have my junk drawer...There are to many memories in there.
Junk drawers will never die... Maybe theres something in that😉
:D
Memories are in:
1. Your mind and heart;
2. Your HDD/chips/SIMs.
Redwood is only asking for your dead/obsolete batteries...
Too many not to many.
@@honesty_-no9he Not in my country.
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Loved the hints - maybe Texas… maybe Germany
Guessing we’ll see Redwood Materials near both of Tesla’s new factories.
But why the f did he say Norway. Isn't that like a tiny irrelevant country
@@someoneinthecrowd4313 norway has the highest EV adoption of any country and the cash to fund whatever they want.
@@Thesaltyseafish Doubt it.
@@someoneinthecrowd4313 Yeah, that surprised me too. They also have some of the highest wages in Europe. If one wanted to supply the Berlin factory they can build a recycling plant just 200km away in Poland where labour is 3x cheaper.
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I would like to know why the batteries end up failing. What is depleated, what is consumed, what is changed? Something must be consumed or unusable. I'm sure you can't take only the recycled materials and make a new battery without adding some new materials.
People should also be paid to recycle their old electronics. Paid a fair price too. If it's such a commodity and so valuable and needed people 100% deserve fair pay for exchange.
This is the kind of thing that gives me hope for the future. No subsidies needed.
Subsidies have been going on for a hundred years, you think Congress il change that? They secure their votes by getting freebees for their districts, Democrats and republican all do it!
Recycling is not profitable. Check the amounts of and the destinations of your tax dollars.
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Subsidies are most certainly needed.
We need to punish the problem financially while rewarding the solution financially.
And Trump supporters are the problem ;)
ASININE......recycling is POINTLESS because selfish assholes are OVERPOPULATING THE EARTH. The Earth is FINITE. All world evils can be traced to ONE CAUSE: too many people consuming finite resources. War, Poverty, Crime, Famine, Pollution, Plague are all caused by TOO MANY PEOPLE. The solution? Only allow the Best of the Best to breed, and require stringent tests. Healthy, sane, financially stable, educated, contributing to civilization with a valuable skill, good DNA that we want to pass on. Politically Correct fanatics and religious fanatics have a vested interest in maintaining a huge mass of starving, poor, frightened unhappy people that they can manipulate. Don't be fooled. Only MANDATORY limits on population will solve anything., Recycling Creates Pollution, costs energy and only returns a tiny fraction of what was wasted to begin with. It is a childish stop gap. Only REDUCING consumption is a rational response. The point of humanity is not just to survive but to EVOLVE and we are wildly Over Due to begin enacting LAWS to control Who Is Allowed To Breed. Instead, you are taxed to feed worthless people contributing nothing to civilization. Instead, you are encouraged to breed more slaves for the corporate masters to exploit. War, Poverty, Crime, Famine, Pollution, Plague are all caused by TOO MANY PEOPLE.
War, Poverty, Crime, Famine, Pollution, Plague are all caused by ONE thing: TOO MANY PEOPLE.
I'm going to do my part and recycle my old batteries.
Sounds like in the near future our old batteries will be worth real money
That's great! Let's recycle!
I know he mentioned that "in some cases" they pay consumers for depleted batteries, but they'll never get close to full recovery until it's worth it monetarily for the average consumer to take it out of their junk drawer and drive it over to Best Buy or other recovery station.
Scraping around with old phone and computer batteries is hard work. Recovering material from old EV batteries will be much easier with an abundant supply coming soon.
It sounds like we need a Landfill Mining/Recycling company to eliminate our landfills and recover untold materials.
that is the job of WASTE management , they are Currently NOT doing Recycling.
@@markplott4820 are waste management companies paid if they dump into landfills?
I've thought about those piles of trash as a resource worth recovering for decades. Seems like sorting today's trash stream is a good idea as well.
Those current landfills may in fact be future goldmines with the right technology
they have tried and the market us unaccepting of the cost to do such things
I'm sure there was a young future billionaire who just got inspired by this segment. Good luck to you!
True
Thx for reminding that
@Ali Bazzi sry I think he meant me :) dont be sad about it
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Billionaires shouldn't exist tho. You've got to be a villain to be a billionaire.
I can't wait until this company goes public and I can invest in it!
So glad he's stepping up for us and the environment so happy to see that
YES BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT! IT DOES NOT BENEFIT POLITICIANS!
@@falcon127 Stop it! Just stop it! So how does a piece of legislation gets enacted into law? So if you’re so concerned about this particular issue, what have you personally done to tell your elected representatives that you want them to solve this problem? Have you contacted the head of the EPA? Have you formed a group of advocates to advocate for cleaning this up? If the answer to any of these questions is no, then why haven’t you?
So if all you’re going to do is complain to others who have no obvious power to change the situation other than through our votes, then you don’t have much of an argument do you, and as a point of information, the government is not a be all, see all panacea of fixing a problem, yes of course it has a big impact, as its employees uses this material too, and president Joe Biden has talked about converting to electric powered vehicles versus continuing to buy vehicles powered by fossil fuels!
So at least they recognize what needs to be done in that particular area, as they also recognize we need to be doing something to solve the whole issue of climate change/global warming, something the previous administration was in complete denial that humankind/human activity contributed to this problem!
So I’d rather light a candle, then to curse the darkness, and if I’m going to speak, I’d like to think that I have done something to change the process other than just complaining about it!
So here’s where I stop talking, and start listening! So would you like to amend your comments based on the questions that I just asked?
Shut up
@@falcon127 Actually politicians are making millions off the climate change scam so shut up
@@theodorehaskins3756 There is no problem with the climate you dummmmm assssss
We need to repurpose old EV batteries for battery storage before recycling. The state of health is often 80% at end of life. Keeps the raw materials focused on scaling up EVs...
Many of them are repurposed first because of their easy transition.
These video never seem to talk about the waste product from these recycling centers. The mentioned 5% is not recyclable? What about the separation process and any waste associated with that?
Looks promising! Hopefully, battery technology can grow up as well as market needed.
I love what redwood is doing, and I would love to be part of their vision!
What a good man...looking at the problem and working at it. I am grateful and my grandchildren will be well
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Maybe there should be a recycling refund to collect on these batteries to ensure they don't end up in landfills. Instead we get charged a recycling fee whenever we buy certain products.
I wish jb straubel and his companions all the best, because this is the kind of thing we have to have!
Let's mine less and recycle more!
If I pay tax on something, let it be on there/that!
I wish the people who are working on to that/it, all the best!
Healthy and Kind Greetings!
Rob
CNBC is O-B-S-E-S-S-E-D with Elon and Tesla
This bubble gets CNBC view counts.
The ICE age is over. They almost see it.
@@damongnojek3912 Everyone sees it .....
But as we can see it's not about tesla or Elon musk. It's a about Tesla's ex employee
@@Respectedevil1 Unfortunately not everyone.
Cough cough Toyota.
didn't expect a high quality like this 😍😍
I appreciate this guys foresight to start working on these things before it becomes a seriously big problem.
I would love to see more of these companies going forward. There's so many batteries that are laying around waiting to be recycled. I have an old phone in a drawer waiting for me to take it to the Apple Store for recycling!
Bill Nye is probably right when he talks about us mining landfills in the future once all the plastics and metals compress.
Yes!! ... I"ve been saying this since I was a kid .. the virgin newsprint alone Made from tree pulp alone, would make it profitable in the next few decades (some 30% of landfill volume is newsprint pre 1970's)
And what's more, apparently it is very satisfying to squish these materials between your fingers.
The dream job.
If you like squishing, search "squish that cat" on youtube.
@@dakshmalhotra2223 , oh I know that one
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Got to clear all my ewaste from the drawers responsibly. Just to save our Earth from all these human activities that tends to destroy and exploit it instead of taking care of it. Thanks God we have good guys doing the good works, we need more of them.. Thank you.
There are a lot of old mine tailings that have all ready dug up and crushed up that are full of rare earth metals. We were looking for other stuff ,but not rare earth metals which are plentiful in these old tailings.
Another benefit of electricfication .... Not like gas, we can reuse the same fuel. This is true sustainablity.
many States are starting to BAN Nautral Gas in NEW home Construction.
@@markplott4820 So electric stoves?
@@gopherlee9427 - yes, Electric stoves and Heating is much safer , 90% of Home fires are from GAS wall heaters .
@@gopherlee9427 Sure, electric stoves running on AAA !
You're not reusing the same fuel, you're just recycling the energy storage device.
More akin to recycling a gas tank.
Thank you for this story having been responsible for the hospital e-waste that had allot of batteries to move it is good to see something being done about it now for the long term.
Besides recylcable materials from old batteries, printed cirucuit board also contain many valuable metals, like gold, that can be extracted and recycled.
They're keeping that Patagonia tech-bro fleece vest stereotype alive and well
Why are we recycling/disposing EV batteries when there is an average of 80% life left at the end of its life in a vehicle? There is a company called Moment Energy in Vancouver that is repurposing EV batteries for utility energy storage that can extend the life of these batteries for another 10+years.
Yellowstone National Park has been using used Toyota Prius batteries for more than a decade as grid storage. Each new EV has the potential to store enough charge to run a normal US home for 2 days. I agree that continuing use of the battery packs until further degradation is a cleaner, cheaper, and better option than immediate EOL disposal.
I could go one more, and suggest that all new EV cars should have easily removable batteries, so that newer, better batteries can be swapped in (like NIO does in China), and the body of the vehicle doesn't have to be scrapped. Electric motors last many times longer than ICE, so it stands to reason that the batteries should be easier to replace, especially with ever bettering technology. I can only assume it's the same "Jobs" excuse that's been used to justify built in obsolescence since the Great Depression.
In the 90s I ran a household with solar panels and recycled computer back and emergency batteries for over 10 years...I'm sure I was public enemy No 1 not being powered via the grid in the eyes of the power company.
Do they have a stock symbol? I'd invest in it right now!
Abml recycles these type of batteries and they have a factory a couple miles from a tesla factory in Nevada I think. Maybe tesla will buy them out or partner with them... ABML is the ticker symbol, check em out.
@@luisletona8908 American Manganese (AMY) is also leading in the battery recycling segment. Their patented RecyLiCo process manages to recycle over 90% of lithium without producing any toxic waste by-product.
Abml seems scammy I like amy or amyzf for u.s.
Li Cycle is about to SPAC merge with PDAC
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There are a few newer technologies that were un mentioned. There is a very recent patent for relithization of spent batteries in situ. There is also Tesla's announced intention to mine clay in Nevada and harvest the lithium by adding salt to the clay. Either of these possible innovations could be a game changer for lithium supplies.
I thought the gold mine in people's junk drawers was their personal data on old devices, but batteries should not be overlooked. There should be more companies that use recycled materials, but our local municipality stopped collecting glass because its weight made it too heavy to transport cheaply
The personal data in old devices is likely already in the cloud being sold to the highest bidder.
This is really good news, I will be cleaning out my junk draw after this video.
Have u done it?
I love cnbc style on their videos!
I work at a metal recycling company. We recycle a lot of cars and the batteries. We pay by weight for them. As for hybrid cars taking the batteries out is dangerous. Eventually there will more hybrids or electric cars which will make it harder for us to recycle them. Like Tesla cars you have to send it them. Even the guy that picks up our batteries wasn’t sure what to do with the only few hybrid batteries we managed to take out safety. There all kinds of road blocks coming our way.
Thank you for recycling and making the factory that does that.
Don't test the new Tesla 9V with your tongue
But I wanna....
Nein ich halte meine Eichel dran 🤗
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@@heyreddy6033 SPAM !
What, do volts bite twice as hard, from a Tesla?
Um... FALSE. Nine Volts DC is Nine Volts DC, and I'll go to the gravel for that statement...
I admire problem solvers like this.
This is another good reason to switch to solid state batteries.
What they don’t tell you is that the rest of the waste product from this recycling goes to landfills.
Not a lot of people will leave a 6 figure job to recycle. I applaud that ex-Tesla guy doing the right thing for our future.
Recycling can be made into a six figure job. He could become a billionaire if this startup takes off
He probably got to the point he couldn't sleep at night.
You think he really gave up his livelihood to save the planet or something?
This guy is worth millions of dollars and probably owns millions in Tesla stock. People like him don't depend on a J O B.
Very informative. Thank You
The video points out the market is growing for these recycled materials. The reality is that the money has to be there or recycling does not happen. More steel is recycled each year than aluminum, paper, glass and plastic combined because it can be magnetically sorted.
Yeah I'm not "dropping off" a phone i paid $700 for whether i still use it or not. Society is crazy. Sell us phones for $1,000.. come out with an upgraded one, so we pay more and stop using the old one, then ask us to drop off the old one for free.. hell nah
We are starting to see Elon’s teams using all they learned at Tesla and starting to innovate elsewhere. I bet there will be more ex Tesla or SpaceX Employees doing Elon’s type projects. This is exciting !
elon type projects are just other people’s projects rehashed or proven to not actually be practical. most of these projects you speak of aren’t anything special
@@JohnDoe-vf3qo that is the hard part . It's the execution that matters . People are not in short supply of ideas. The main skill most people on RUclips comments do not understand , is to bring an idea from concept to reality . And Elon and his teams are proving that they do that better than almost anyone on the planet at this moment . If you think that's not special , bring those ideas to another company and see how that goes. Your comment shows that you actually don't understand how project go from conception to reality. Execution has always been the hard part in Anything !
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@@ag3179 yes there is a such thing as a new idea. also most people who do just rehash other people’s ideas cite the idea they are modernizing.
@@TheHeavenman88 i mean the people who created the projects he is rehashing did create and proved it to be impractical. from the hyperloop to the solar city solar shingles to the fully reusable rockets cutting costs.
Tesla is building battery recycling plant near Nevada Giga factory.
really? Do you have more info about this?
@@cicirunner google "tesla battery recycling". I think they already are into that.
Always admired straubel for his impactive thinking
Problem = Opportunity. Like the forward thinking of these recycling company founders.
"If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs, but by new minds with no programs at all."
- Daniel Quinn, _The Story of B_
Not wise to dismiss older minds and not wise to trust unproven minds without backup merely because they are young.
It appears they are first trying new programs with no mind at all.
If they offered a fee for people's waste batteries it would probably make people sell their old junk batteries.
They would have had WAREHOUSES FULL of recyclable electronics recovered materials had they started to do THIS (what you've said) *30* YEARS ago.
Imagine how valuable our landfills will be to future generations.
In order to have people recycle batteries i think is adding another container for recycling batteries at least a couple in every neighborhood or a small container in every household attach somehow to our current garbage/recycle container .
That would make sense so they wont do it.
It says auto generated captions, but there is no caption. I can't hear right now and don't know what the video is about. Maybe the video is full of music?
edit: works fine now, but didnt work like when video was uploaded after an hourm
Click the RUclips CC button
It works for me.
Yep closed captions are working for me too.
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I remember telling JB in person that he was literally throwing away millions a dollars of good inventory - straight to trash, no iq needed.- he started this company up weeks later.
It's great that the materials used to make batteries the first time get reused to make more energy dense, longer life, newer technology batteries.
Amazing video, so much key information! Need to look to the future.
Don't know if this happens elsewhere, but I have always got cashback/discount on my old phone when I buy a new phone in India, irrespective of whether it is an online or offline retailer. We are huge in recycling and breaking down some of the things if we see value.
That li-cycle background made his ears look like they are flapping.😂
I don't think this video had enough footage of minerals being lifted up and squished.....
what he said about holding old electronics is so true, I think I have about 5 cellphones in boxes, and one is about 10yrs old.
This is precisely the importance of the Right to Repair movement. The easier products are to repair and disassemble the easier they are to recycle
11:20 if you notice every time he looks away he’s telling you lie 😂 then turning back to give a corporate answer
Que the hate responses...
It’s almost like the corporate answer is the one that has the best outcome for the company
@@colbyhowto8535 lol always
Still, first reuse for stationary energy storage then recycle.
Not always .I can’t take phone batteries to the grid . I rather them focus on recycling everything
@@TheHeavenman88 true, I meant bigger traction batteries.
I like how he sidestepped the question on the profitability of recycling batteries.
Part of the problem with recycling with companies like Best Buy is they make the consumer pay to recycle old technology. What’s my incentive then? If I can’t do it for free then I’ll just put it in the trash or hang on to it.
Yes they are recyclable but ever try to recycle them ? it is a pain to just find a place, so guess what? they will end up in the land fill :D
I concur, honestly.
I have old recyclable/rechargeable batteries that aren't good anymore. Laying around my house, just waiting for me to take them to a recycling dropoff point.
Trying to make the time, find the location, make the trip, and remembering to take a few old AAs to random spots when it would literally be 1000% easier to toss them. . . .I dunno.
Perhaps that issue needs to be addressed, too.
The next goal: Making recycling an obligatory thing for all the trash. Even if this is "profitable" or not. It is an responsibility to the future generations
I'm happy to see this future!
This is why I love the free market. When there’s a need, human ingenuity can solve it. This is proof.