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Tom Tan and the time it takes to change a car
Before electric cars became a boardroom obsession, Tom Tan was working on the parts, partnerships and people beneath them. His BorgWarner career traces China’s automotive transformation one production decision at a time.
Byron Foster and the parts that make the whole
Before taking the wheel at Dana, Byron Foster spent decades in the business of what goes inside a vehicle. His next assignment brings a familiar question to a larger stage: how do you make all the pieces work together?
Drew Baglino
Drew Baglino spent 18 years at Tesla building the guts of the electric age - the Model S powertrain, the Powerwall and Megapack, the 4680 battery cell and a clean-sheet 50 GWh factory in Texas. In 2024 he walked away as Senior Vice President of Powertrain and Energy and aimed his next act at the one piece of grid hardware almost nobody had touched in a century: the transformer. His startup, Heron Power, builds software-controlled solid-state transformers and in February 2026 raised a $140 million Series B co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Breakthrough Energy Ventures to build a 40 GW U.S. factory. He also quietly founded a residential heat-pump company, Sadi Thermal Machines.
Lucid Motors
Lucid Motors is an American luxury electric-vehicle maker based in Newark, California, building the longest-range production EVs in the world. Its in-house powertrain and battery engineering deliver class-leading efficiency in the Lucid Air sedan and the Gravity SUV, backed heavily by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.