20 Facts About JB Straubel

JB Straubel spent 15 years at Tesla, as chief technical officer until moving to an advisory role in July 2019.

In 2017, JB Straubel founded and became the CEO of Redwood Materials, Inc, working on creating battery materials and products for lithium-ion batteries out of recycled batteries.

JB Straubel holds a Bachelor of Science in energy systems engineering and a Master of Science in energy engineering from Stanford University.

JB Straubel joined Tesla as its fifth employee in 2004, and is named as a co-founder.

JB Straubel was its inaugural chief technical officer until moving to an advisory role in July 2019.

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At Tesla, JB Straubel led battery cell design, supply chain and led the first Gigafactory concept through the production ramp of the Model 3.

JB Straubel had a direct role in research and development, team building, and operational expansion from prototype cars through to mass production and expanding battery production to gigawatt-hour scale.

JB Straubel had responsibility for new technology evaluation, technical due diligence review of key vendors and partners, intellectual property, and systems validation testing.

In 2017, JB Straubel established Redwood Materials, working on the recycling of lithium-ion batteries and e-waste.

At Volacom, JB Straubel co-invented and patented a new long-endurance hybrid propulsion concept that was later licensed to Boeing.

JB Straubel is on the board of QuantumScape and consults with Amory Lovins at the Rocky Mountain Institute.

When JB Straubel left as CTO at Tesla in July 2019, they moved to Nevada where Redwood Materials was located.

JB Straubel had worked as a manager in human resources at Tesla and was a vice president of human resources at the Wikimedia Foundation for one year.

JB Straubel's photograph was taken in July 2006 driving Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Tesla Roadster at its unveiling in Santa Monica, California.

In September 2007, Straubel 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 CO2 intensity of our current energy production methods.

JB Straubel was honored to keynote the Stanford Alumni EDAY in July 2008.

Also in July 2008, JB Straubel spoke on a transportation panel "Progression Toward EVs" at Plug In 2008.

In 2008, JB 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.

JB Straubel spoke at MIT's Emtech conference on a panel on green transportation in Boston, MA in September 2008.

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