Dakota Semler is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder 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, or better, performance benchmarks of an existing diesel vehicle—without compromising the air we breathe. Since 2018, Xos has deployed nearly 400 of its 100% battery-electric vehicles with leading fleets such as FedEx Ground Operators, UPS, and Amazon. Dakota was named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Manufacturing & Industry in 2019.