General Motors becomes first automaker to partner with Redwood across the full battery lifecycle

Today, we are announcing the latest chapter of Redwood's partnership with General Motors: Redwood plans to deploy ~100 repurposed GM battery packs at one of GM's operating plants in Michigan to provide 1.5 MW/7.2 MWh of dispatchable energy to the site. The installation is expected to save more than $3 million on local electricity bills at the plant over the lifetime of the installation - demonstrating how GM's battery technology is flexing beyond EVs to help lower energy costs at manufacturing sites and support a more resilient energy future.

This deployment makes General Motors the first automaker to engage Redwood across every stage of the battery lifecycle - recovering material from manufacturing scrap, recycling end-of-life GM EV packs, and now, deploying energy storage with GM EV packs in real-world energy infrastructure, including AI data centers and soon, an active manufacturing plant. Together, GM and Redwood are showing how repurposed EV batteries can keep working well beyond their useful life in a vehicle - first as energy storage, and ultimately as recovered material for future batteries.

Through our existing partnership with Ultium Cells, GM's battery cell manufacturing joint venture with LG Energy Solution, Redwood already receives and recycles manufacturing scrap from their U.S. facilities. And when GM EVs reach the end of their useful life on the road, those packs come to Redwood-where they are either repurposed into energy storage systems or recycled to recover critical materials for new battery production.

To date, Redwood has received over 28,000 metric tons (MT) of material from GM and Ultium Cells for recycling, with an additional ~10,000 EV packs now in the pipeline for repurposing through Redwood Energy. For GM, that creates a path to extend the value of its battery technology and battery materials, while also helping meet rising demand for reliable, dispatchable power.