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Tesla former CTO JB Straubel nominated to Board of Directors

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Mr. Straubel joined Tesla in 2004, and spent 14 years as our Chief Technology Officer, where he played a key role in our battery cell design, and engineering and production. Mr. Straubel also led the construction and concept of Gigafactory Nevada and the production ramp of our Model 3.

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Former IEEE Chief Financial Officer Richard Schwartz Dies at 77

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Army during the Korean War, he participated in an atomic bomb test in Nevada. In 2004 he founded the Stata Center for Computing, Information, and Intelligence Sciences. While serving in the U.S. Mancino began his career at RCA in 1951 as an electromagnetic compatibility engineer in Camden, N.J.

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Story of TESLA Motors: Beginning, Fight, Survival, and Success

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Giant companies were paying no or very little attention in the electric vehicle market and they were still focusing on developing new IC engine-powered models. Tesla motors were found by a group of passionate engineers who really wanted to show the world the power of electric vehicles and what can be done with them. Musk invested 6.3