On the heels of the new UC Berkeley/UCLA Law report on harvesting “second life” electric vehicle batteries, the Sacramento Bee is running an op-ed from me today on the topic.  You can read it here.  As I write in the piece, even with the Tesla Gigafactory going to Nevada,

California still has an opportunity to boost an entirely different battery supply market, one that will also help the state clean our energy supply and reduce the cost of electric vehicles in the process. The answer lies not in manufacturing new batteries, but repurposing used ones.

Let’s hope policy makers take note and take the steps necessary to boosting this new market.