Overview

• GM and Redwood Materials signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding on July 16 to supply new and second-life US-made EV batteries for stationary energy storage.
• The initial deployment uses GM packs to power a 12 MW/63 MWh microgrid at Redwood’s Sparks, Nevada, campus that supplies electricity to a 2,000-GPU Crusoe AI data center.
• Redwood Energy, which launched in June, focuses on repurposing both new and retired EV battery packs into grid-scale energy storage systems.
• The collaboration addresses surging electricity demand from AI data centers and renewable intermittency while reinforcing domestic battery supply chains.
• Partners aim to deploy 20 GWh of storage capacity by 2028 and will announce further rollout details later this year.