A massive energy unlock
A massive energy unlock. We’re expanding our partnership with Redwood Materials to collaborate across the full lifecycle of Rivian battery packs.
A battery pack that’s no longer right for a high-performance EV doesn’t have to be done. It can be repurposed into stationary energy storage to support grid reliability and store clean energy. And when it truly reaches the end of the road, it can be recycled. Battery scrap and end-of-life packs go back through the process, recovering over 95% of critical minerals—including lithium, nickel, cobalt, and copper—for a domestic supply chain.
Building on our initial energy storage deployment at our manufacturing plant in Normal, Illinois, we’re proving how a fully circular battery ecosystem can power a cleaner, more resilient future.
Read more on how retired EV batteries can make the energy grid more reliable while lowering costs for everyone: rivn.co/Battery-Lifecycle
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Why this matters for talent
Expanding the Redwood Materials partnership across the full lifecycle of Rivian's battery packs is a meaningful deepening, not a renewal. At Rivian's scale, with 800 open roles already on the board, this kind of lifecycle commitment usually sustains demand for battery engineering and supply chain roles rather than creating a new hiring wave by itself.
Read the original LinkedIn post. Curated by Larry Sherwood Jr. from company announcements; analysis above is my own.