March 30, 2023: Drew Baglino, Tesla’s senior vp for powertrain and vitality engineering, was offered with the Shep Wolsky Battery Innovator award for 2023 throughout the Worldwide Battery Seminar in Florida on March 21.
Baglino joined Tesla in 2006 as a firmware and technical engineer. His profession at Tesla included work on energy electronics and automobile techniques, together with modeling Tesla’s all-electric Roadster.
Baglino can be chargeable for the technical management of the firmware and electronics for Tesla’s second-generation battery for Daimler’s Sensible EV.
He’s the powertrain architect for Tesla’s Mannequin S excessive voltage system.
The battery innovator award is offered yearly in reminiscence of Wolsky, who died in 2017.
Wolsky based the seminar in his retirement and ran the occasion for 32 years, earlier than promoting to Cambridge Enertech.
Final yr’s award winner was the co-founder and CEO of Nevada-based Redwood Supplies, Jeffrey Brian Straubel, the previous CTO and co-founder of Tesla.
