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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★MIT Technology Review Innovator of the Year under 35 (2008)
★Benchmark Lifetime Achievement Award 2024
★Automotive News All-Star 2024
★Engineer of the Year by DesignNews
★Time100 Climate 2024 recognition for Redwood Materials
Notable Facts
→Co-founder and former CTO of Tesla for 15 years
→Founded Redwood Materials in 2017, valued at $6 billion
→Elected to Tesla board of directors in 2023
→Holds over 30 patents in battery and motor technology
→Led development of Tesla's Gigafactory concept and Model 3 production
→Stanford MS in Energy Engineering
→Secured $2 billion DOE loan for Redwood Materials
→Former lecturer at Stanford University 2015-2016
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