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From TFA: David Roberts When did automotive batteries become the majority of your input by volume? Colin Campbell That is a good question. David Roberts W
by dylan604 1y ago
From TFA:
David Roberts
When did automotive batteries become the majority of your input by volume?
Colin Campbell
That is a good question.
David Roberts
Was it recent or was that early on?
Colin Campbell
I would say the transition to EV batteries dominating what we received, it’s been in the last year or 18 months.
David Roberts
So the front edge of a very large wave of batteries has begun to arrive?
Colin Campbell
Yeah, the wave is out there, it’s coming. The waters have finally started to arrive at the beach here.
- bryanlarsen 1y agoReading between the lines of the corporate speak will validate my point. Redwood was founded in 2017.
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- jeffbee 1y agoHe's just talking his book. Their deployment this year was 1/4000th share of the BESS market.
- dylan604 1y agoBattery Energy Storage System for anyone else like me that has no knowledge of this world and their acronyms.