Redwood Materials and Rivian expand partnership for battery recycling and storage

Redwood Materials and Rivian expanded their partnership to enable end-to-end energy solutions. Under the agreement, Redwood Materials will collect end-of-life Rivian EV battery packs through Rivian’s service centers for evaluation. The company will then repurpose suitable packs for stationary energy storage or recycle them, and will also recycle battery scrap from Rivian’s manufacturing operations.

The partnership builds on existing work that deployed 10 megawatt-hours of battery storage at Rivian’s manufacturing plant in Normal, Illinois. Repurposing retired EV batteries into stationary storage is described as a way to make the electrical grid more reliable and lower energy costs.