Dakota Semler is the Co-Founder and CEO of Xos, a Los Angeles-based technology company, fleet services provider, and manufacturer of Class 5 through Class 8 battery-electric vehicles. Xos’ mission is to decarbonize commercial transportation with the most durable trucking technology available.

Dakota has been in the transportation and trucking industry for more than a decade and grew up working on his family’s fleet business. He came up with the idea for Xos to solve the exact challenge he faced as a fleet operator: to create a cost-effective, durable, and reliable electric vehicle that achieves the same performance benchmarks of an existing diesel vehicle—without compromising the air we breathe. This vision has come to life with Xos. Xos vehicles have been on the road since 2018, and today, the Xos ecosystem includes end-customers like FedEx Ground, UniFirst, Loomis, and Merchants Fleet, and strategic partners like Metalsa, Fitzgerald Manufacturing Partners, and Allison Transmission, along with dealer groups MHC, Thompson Truck Centers, and Yancey, to name a few. Dakota was named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Manufacturing & Industry in 2019.