JB Straubel

Former Chief Technical Officer and Co-founder, Tesla Motors

JB is a top innovation speaker and the former Chief Technical Officer and Co-founder at Tesla Motors. In addition to his work at Tesla, JB has also served on the Board of Directors for Solar City, the leading US residential solar company, since its founding. Additionaly, he is a lecturer at his alma mater, Stanford University. He also Co-founded Redwood Materials in 2017, a company poised to recycle lithium-ion batteries and reuse them in electric vehicles.

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  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • JB Straubel Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

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  • Languages Spoken

    English

Suggested Keynote Speaker Programs

How to speed innovation like Tesla

The Future of Transportation

Connected Cars, Cities, and IoT

Energy batteries & energy storage

Entrepreneurship

About Keynote Speaker JB Straubel

JB Straubel is the Co-founder of Tesla, Inc., “the #1 Most Innovative Company in the World,” according to Forbes. At Tesla, JB managed the technical direction and engineering design of the Tesla products including battery technology, power electronics, motors, software, firmware, and controls. Most of all, JB also created and managed many important Tesla initiatives. First of all: Tesla Energy’s business provides grid storage for commercial utilities and residential consumers. Another: the worldwide Tesla Supercharger network of fast DC chargers. Finally: the Tesla Gigafactory is leading the way toward increasing worldwide battery production and lowering the cost per kWh.

In addition to his work at Tesla, JB has also served on the Board of Directors for Solar City, the leading US residential solar company, since its founding. Furthermore, he is a lecturer at his alma mater, Stanford University. He teaches an engineering class and lab focused on energy storage integration (CEE 176C) in the Engineering Department.

In 2017, JB also co-founded Redwood Materials. It is a startup focusing on advanced technology and process development for materials recycling, remanufacturing, and reuse.  Using ‘circular supply chains’, Redwood Materials turns waste into profits and solves the environmental impacts of new products before they happen. Recently acquired funding will be used to build a production facility that produces battery materials from recycled materials. By 2025, the capacity of the production facilities is to be expanded to 100 GWh, enough for one million electric vehicles.

JB has had a lifelong interest in electric vehicles, also including rebuilding an electric gold cart at the age of 14, an Electric Porsche 944. As a result, it held a world EV racing record, solar car racing, and building a hybrid trailer system that he designed while in college. Consequently, in 2008, the MIT Technology Review chose JB as “#1 Innovator of 35 under 35 for the year”. Furthermore, in 2009 DesignNews named him “Engineer of the Year”. Finally, in 2015 he was listed as #2 on Fortune’s 40 under 40 most influential business and innovation leaders. JB is an inventor on over 30 patents covering most areas of Tesla’s core battery, motor, and controls systems.

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He received a BS in Energy Systems Engineering and also an MS in Energy Engineering, with emphasis on energy conversion, both from Stanford University. Furthermore, outside of Tesla Motors, Straubel is also an active cyclist and pilot and holds private pilot, instrument, glider, and multi-engine ratings.

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