October 2023

Nathan Nye is responsible for leading Tesla’s vision and business strategy for the Circular Economy sector in the Americas. His focus is on life cycle management and development of integrated Lithium-Ion recovery & recycling programs for all business channels, feeding battery materials back into the supply chain, creating a closed-loop, and reducing the need for newly mined raw materials.  His engagement with policy teams has resulted in valuable contributions to CalEPA’s Li-Ion Car Battery Recycling Advisory Group (AB2832), CARB’s Advanced Clean Cars 2 Working Group (ZEV ACC2),...Read more

Dr. Dai is an Energy Systems Analyst at Argonne, where she researches sustainable lithium-ion battery production, assembly, use, and recycling. In 2017, she began developing Argonne’s EverBatt model to examine the cost and environmental impact of a battery through every stage of its life cycle. EverBatt won a R&D 100 Award in 2019. Dai works at the ReCell Center, the U.S. Department of Energy’s advanced battery recycling center, headquartered at Argonne. The center aims to develop more economic and environmentally sound recycling processes for batteries.Read more

Michael Berube is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Sustainable Transportation and Fuels in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. In this role, he oversees EERE’s Sustainable Transportation and Fuels sector, which includes the Vehicle, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell, and Bioenergy Technologies offices. This portfolio focuses on research and development to increase access to domestic, clean transportation fuels and improve the energy efficiency, convenience, and affordability of transporting people and goods to support U.S. energy security, economic productivity and competitiveness...Read more