Linda Maepa

As co-founder and COO of ElectronVault, Maepa focuses on operations, alliances, and technology. ElectronVault is expert in the design and manufacture of high-reliability, large-format energy storage systems. By designing cost-efficient systems that allow electric vehicles to be sold cost-competitively with gasoline vehicles, ElectronVault now has technology in production-ready vehicle battery systems on the roads of the United States, Europe, and Asia. From Johannesburg, South Africa, she leads ElectronVault Energy System’s push into the grid-scale storage space. Maepa earned a degree at Caltech as a geobiologist focused on protein coevolution with Earth’s early atmosphere. Her professional experience encompasses consulting to high-tech manufacturing and state government and, in academia, genomics, seismology, and paleomagnetics. She is also a small-scale organic farmer and volunteers at the board level for nonprofits.

Program Session
One Great Idea: Making Energy Useful
ElectronVault is changing the face of energy storage and use with a unique battery technology usable across an incredible range of functions at as little as half the cost of other offerings. The company is using their revolutionary battery technology around the world to introduce EVs to new markets and electrify regions for the first time.