Meet 13 power players of the electric-vehicle industry, from leading companies like Tesla, Rivian, and QuantumScape

The excitement around the electric-vehicle industry has reached a fever pitch in recent years. Now, the companies promising a new generation of batteries and pickup trucks — Rivian, Lucid, and Tesla chief among them — have to prove they can make products that will justify that excitement and investment.

Their CEOs will receive the majority of the credit or blame for their successes and failures. But no C-suiter can succeed without a strong team of executives and managers behind them.

Insider identified the key leaders at EV and battery companies who will be essential to their plans to grow operations and introduce products but likely won’t receive the limelight their bosses will.

These are 13 of the EV industry’s most impactful leaders who aren’t CEOs.