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Watt It Takes
with Toby Kraus

Toby Kraus is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lightship, an electric vehicle company looking to revolutionize the recreational vehicle space with all-electric offerings, enabling zero-emission road trips so that we can explore nature while preserving it for generations to come. Emily spoke with Toby live during Powerhouse’s SF Climate Week event to talk about his journey from growing up in Boulder, Colorado, to joining Tesla and later Proterra, to meeting his Lightship co-founder and embarking on the road trip of a lifetime, to revolutionizing the RV industry with Lightship.

 
 
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Toby Kraus

Co-Founder & CEO
Lightship
 
 
 

Toby Kraus is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lightship. Toby has devoted his career to working on the electrification of vehicles big and small from the Tesla Model S to commercial vehicles like trucks and school buses. In co-founding Lightship, Toby was inspired to push electrification into a new segment and to new demographics that haven’t been previously served by the electrification movement.

Toby began his career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Economics from Duke University.
 
 
 
“I mean, building a venture-backed RV company, in a lot of ways, is sort of crazy. It's not like particularly in [at] this moment. There's nothing to do with AI on this vehicle. I can't even make up a funny way to involve it.”

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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