# Redwood Materials

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/redwood-materials/  
**Website:** https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Redwood Materials is a Carson City, Nevada battery materials company founded in 2017 by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel. It operates a domestic circular supply chain for lithium-ion batteries: collecting and recycling end-of-life EV, consumer, micromobility and stationary-storage batteries, refining the recovered lithium, nickel, cobalt and copper, and remanufacturing anode copper foil and cathode active material for North American cell producers. Through Redwood Energy it also deploys second-life battery energy storage systems for data centers and the grid. Redwood runs the Tahoe Campus in Northern Nevada, the Carolina Campus outside Charleston, South Carolina, and an R&D center in San Francisco, and works with Panasonic, Toyota, GM, BMW, VW/Audi, Rivian, Caterpillar, Isuzu and Lime. Redwood publishes no public developer API, OpenAPI, SDK or MCP server; its only machine-facing surface is a gated AWS Cognito partner portal used by automotive dismantlers to price and sell end-of-life battery packs.

## Kin Score — 9.7 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (-0.7 from 10.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 23.7 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 13.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Security (1)

- **Redwood Materials Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Battery Recycling, Critical Minerals, Energy Storage, Electric Vehicles, Circular Economy, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Cleantech, Materials

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/redwood-materials/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.