J. B. Straubel

Jeffrey Brian Straubel (born December 20, 1975) is an American businessman. He was the inaugural chief technical officer at Tesla Inc.[3] until moving to an advisory role in July 2019.[4] At Tesla, Straubel oversaw the technical and engineering design of the vehicles. Straubel also had responsibility for new technology evaluation, research and development, technical diligence review of key vendors and partners, IP, and systems validation testing.[5] In addition to his work at Tesla, Straubel was also on the board of directors at SolarCity. He is also a lecturer at Stanford University, where he teaches the energy storage integration class in the Atmosphere and Energy Program. In 2017, JB established Redwood Materials, working on the recycling of lithium-ion battery and e-waste.

J. B. Straubel
Born
Jeffrey Brian Straubel[1]

(1975-12-20) December 20, 1975
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStanford University, (B.S. 1998; M.S. 2000)[2]
OccupationEngineer, former CTO, businessman
Known forCTO of Tesla Inc., founder & CEO of Redwood Materials
Websitehttp://www.straubel.com/
Jeffrey B. Straubel at the German Electromobility Summit 2013 in Berlin

Public recognition

In 2008, Straubel was named Innovator of the Year by MIT's Technology Review in their annual TR35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[6][7] He spoke at MIT's Emtech conference on a panel on green transportation in Boston, MA in September 2008.[8]

Straubel was honored to keynote the Stanford Alumni EDAY in July 2008.[9] In July 2008, Straubel spoke on a transportation panel "Progression Toward EVs" at Plug In 2008.[10] In early 2008, Stanford Magazine featured Straubel's role in growing the Stanford presence at Tesla.[11]

In September 2007, JB spoke on an energy panel titled "Clean, Secure, and Efficient Energy" at Stanford University along with former Secretary of State, George P. Shultz, where he emphasized the importance of education about climate change, and decreasing the CO
2 intensity of our current energy production methods.[12][13]

Popular Science magazine featured Straubel in a full-length article in April 2007.[14]

His photograph was shown in The Economist in July 2006, taking Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for a drive at the Tesla Roadster unveiling in Santa Monica, California.

In March 2012, Straubel spoke at the DESIGN West conference, produced by UBM Electronics, at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA.[15]

Prior to Tesla, Straubel was the CTO and co-founder of Volacom along with Harold Rosen. Volacom worked closely with Burt Rutan at Scaled Composites to design a specialized high-altitude aircraft platform using a novel hydrogen-powered electric power plant. At Volacom, Straubel co-invented and patented the new long-endurance hybrid propulsion concept that was later licensed to Boeing.

In the area of technical expertise, Straubel has consulted with VC firms Taproot Ventures and Kleiner Perkins in addition to several other private equity investors to conduct technical diligence reviews for many start-ups in the energy and clean energy technologies category. Straubel also consults with Amory Lovins at the Rocky Mountain Institute.

Although he did not originally intend to work in the automobile industry, Straubel has had a long personal passion for electric vehicles, including building an electric Porsche 944 that, on October 21, 2000, earned the 240 V SC/B[16] world electric vehicle racing record.[17]

Straubel received a B.S. in energy systems engineering and an M.S. in energy engineering, with emphasis on energy conversion, both from Stanford University.[18]

References
  1. US 8803471, Sarah G. Stewart, Scott Ira Kohn, Russell Kelty & Jeffrey Brian Straubel, "Electric vehicle extended range hybrid battery pack system"
  2. Marsh, Ann, "BRIGHT IDEA: The Electric Company : How do you power a fast car without gas? With a really big battery", Stanford Magazine, Stanford University, January/February 2008
  3. "Tesla Motors". Tesla Motors. Retrieved 2011-09-24.
  4. Kolodny, Lora (2019-07-27). "JB Straubel wasn't just Tesla's CTO — he invented the carmaker's core technologies". CNBC. Retrieved 2020-01-02.
  5. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) (2010-01-29). "Tesla Motors, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the SEC". Retrieved 2010-10-22.
  6. "2008 Young Innovators Under 35". Technology Review. 2008. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
  7. Bullis, Kevin. "2008 Young Innovator: JB Straubel, 32". Technology Review.
  8. TR Editors (September 24, 2008). "CNET Reports from EmTech08". Technology Review.
  9. "Stanford School of Engineering - EDAY08 schedule". Stanford University. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2013-07-09.
  10. "Plug-In 2008 Conference Agenda". Archived from the original on 2008-07-21. Retrieved 2013-07-09.
  11. Marsh, Ann (2009). "The Electric Company". Stanford Magazine. Archived from the original on 2012-02-20. Retrieved 2008-09-30.
  12. Benson, Sally; Ehrlich, Paul; Krupp, Fred; Shultz, George; Straubel, JB; Goodman, Amy (September 5, 2007). "Clean, Secure, and Efficient Energy: Can We Have It All?". Aurora Forum at Stanford University.
  13. Kazak, Don (September 4, 2007). "Shultz to speak on energy panel at Stanford". Palo Alto Online.
  14. "Straubel featured". Time4.com. Archived from the original on 2008-04-19. Retrieved 2007-09-07.
  15. "DESIGN West Keynotes". UBM Electronics. Archived from the original on 2012-11-26. Retrieved 2011-12-14.
  16. "Silent Thunder 2000 - Northern California Race Results".
  17. "JB Straubel on how to speed innovation like Tesla". 2015-07-15.
  18. "JB Straubel Energy". Stanford. Retrieved 2017-04-21.
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