Tesla co-founder and former CTO JB Straubel is formally becoming a member of the corporate’s board of administrators following a shareholder vote.

JB Straubel was a co-founder at Tesla and the corporate’s longtime chief expertise officer till he left in 2019 to launch Redwood Supplies, which helps create a North American battery provide chain.

After Elon Musk, Straubel was essentially the most well-known govt on the firm and was extensively credited for serving to give Tesla a technological edge when it got here to batteries and energy electronics.

Straubel has been widely known as an engineering chief and an professional in batteries and energy electronics. It was a major loss for the corporate when he determined to depart.

Final month, Tesla followers have been glad to study that he was coming again in a distinct capability.

Tesla disclosed that Hiromichi Mizuno, the pinnacle of Japan’s Authorities Pension Funding Fund, just isn’t going to hunt re-election on Tesla’s board. As an alternative, the corporate’s board nominated Straubel – pending a shareholder vote.

Right this moment, Tesla’s held its annual shareholder assembly, and the corporate’s traders voted to have Straubel on the board for the subsequent three years. Following the announcement {that a} majority of shareholders voted for him, he obtained a heat welcome from these in attendance.

Electrek’s Take

As a Tesla fan, I’m ecstatic about this. I’ve at all times admired JB. I assumed he was at all times a terrific early communicator of the significance of electrical transportation, which reveals that he has a agency grasp of the topic.

I’m glad he’s again at Tesla, even when it’s simply on the board. I feel it is perhaps a very good indicator that he might take over the function of CEO from Musk sooner or later.

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