{"id":112276,"date":"2020-08-31T23:23:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T06:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/tesla-co-founder-jb-straubels-startup-is-already-recycling-scrap-from-gigafactory-nevada"},"modified":"2020-08-31T23:23:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T06:23:22","slug":"tesla-co-founder-jb-straubels-startup-is-already-recycling-scrap-from-gigafactory-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/tesla-co-founder-jb-straubels-startup-is-already-recycling-scrap-from-gigafactory-nevada","title":{"rendered":"Tesla co-founder JB Straubel\u2019s startup is already recycling scrap from Gigafactory Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-co-founder-jb-straubels-startup-is-already-recycling-scrap-from-gigafactory-nevada.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Straubel was an early founding member of Tesla and the company Chief Technology Officer until last summer.<\/p>\n<p>He officially <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2019\/07\/24\/tesla-cto-co-founder-jb-straubel-leaving-advisor-role\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">moved to an advisory role at the company<\/a>, but it is believed to have been a symbolic move to soften the blow of Tesla\u2019s longtime technology leader leaving the company.<\/p>\n<p>As we reported at the time, Straubel was already becoming less present at Tesla months prior to the announcement and spending more time on his startup: Redwood Materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Straubel was an early founding member of Tesla and the company Chief Technology Officer until last summer. He officially moved to an advisory role at the company, but it is believed to have been a symbolic move to soften the blow of Tesla\u2019s longtime technology leader leaving the company. As we reported at the time, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}