You are invited to hear Martin Eberhard, co-founder of Tesla Motors, present "The Future of Electric" a fascinating program about bringing new technologies to market for a carbon-reduced future and how these technologies might apply in the islands. A Q&A will follow.
Eberhard is a much sought-after, world-renowned speaker with ties to San Juan Island, Martin is an engineer, a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and inventor on at least 29 granted patents, with a dozen or so in the works.
In 2002, Eberhard and colleague Marc Tarpenning founded Tesla Motors, where Martin was its original Chairman and CEO until late 2007. As the University of Illinois, his alma mater, stated in naming Martin the Inaugural Leader in Residence, "he and his team reinvented the electric car, changing public perception of electric cars to be fast, sexy, desirable cars that will become the future of transportation." Free admission with donations going to support San Juan Island School's STEAM program.