BMW will flip to Redwood Supplies for recycling of batteries from its EVs, plug-in hybrids, and delicate hybrids within the U.S., the automaker introduced Thursday.
The settlement, which covers the BMW, Rolls-Royce, and Mini manufacturers, in addition to BMW’s bikes, will see Redwood work straight with BMW dealerships, distribution facilities, and different U.S. amenities to recuperate batteries on the finish of their helpful lives. BMW claims 95% to 98% of vital minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel, and copper will probably be recycled.
BMW companions with Redwood Supplies on battery recycling
Redwood’s recycling processes can cut back vitality use by 80%, CO2 emissions by 70%, and water use by 80% in comparison with mining and refinement of recent minerals, in accordance with BMW.
Based in 2017 by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, Redwood is constructing a recycling facility in Charleston, South Carolina, that will probably be comparatively near BMW manufacturing amenities. The automaker has an meeting plant in Spartanburg and is constructing a battery plant in Woodruff. AESC, which provides battery cells to BMW, has a plant in Florence.
Redwood Supplies
BMW goals to construct at the least six absolutely electrical fashions within the U.S. by 2030. Within the nearer time period, the automaker will ramp up manufacturing of its next-generation “Neue Klasse” EVs at crops outdoors the U.S. The primary mannequin, an SUV, will enter manufacturing in Hungary in 2025, adopted by a sedan in 2026. The SUV may even be inbuilt Mexico beginning in 2027.
Redwood, which acquired a $2 billion mortgage from the U.S. Division of Power in 2023, presently operates a recycling facility close to Reno, Nevada. It additionally counts Ford, Toyota, and the Volkswagen Group’s Audi and VW manufacturers amongst its clients.
