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CTOnews.com news on August 28, Colin Campbell, former vice president of powertrain engineering of Tesla, announced on LinkedIn that he would leave Tesla to join RedWood Materials, a start-up company, as chief technology officer. He also became the second Tesla executive to leave in half a month after Tesla's chief financial officer Zakary Kirkhorn left.

▲ Tuyuan LinkedIn learned that it has been 17 years since Colin Campbell joined the job to leave Tesla, and he is a veritable veteran of Tesla. He led the team to build Tesla's three-power system. At present, Colin Campbell did not disclose the specific reasons for his departure, and Musk and Tesla did not respond to his departure.

▲ Tuyuan LinkedIn CTOnews.com learned after inquiry that Colin Campbell had been an electrical engineer for Tesla traction inverter from August 2006 to January 2014, when Tesla had not even built a car. This was his first and longest position in Tesla, and then he was promoted to Engineering Manager.

In 2016, Colin Campbell became Tesla Senior Engineering Director of Power Electronics and was quickly promoted to Senior Director of Powertrain, responsible for the development of all powertrain. In June 2021, Colin became Tesla Vice President of Powertrain Engineering until his departure.

Redwood Materials, headquartered in Carson City, Nevada, was founded in 2017 by J.B.Straubel, co-founder and former chief technology officer of Tesla.

▲ Redwood Materials official website Redwood converts scrapped electric car batteries and waste from car factories into raw materials and components to make new batteries and mixes "sustainable materials" in the manufacturing process. The company aims to create a complete closed-loop battery supply chain in 2021. Redwood raised more than $700 million (currently about 5.103 billion yuan) at a valuation of $3.7 billion (CTOnews.com Note: about RMB 26.973 billion) and received a conditional commitment of $2 billion in loans from the Department of Energy earlier this year.

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