Jay Turner is the author of Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future (2022) and a professor in the environmental studies department at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. He has published on the material challenges of a clean energy transition in publications ranging from Science to Fast Company. He and his students have been tracking and publishing regular updates on how the US EV supply chain has responded to the Inflation Reduction Act on Twitter and clean energy blogs. Turner’s is trained as an environmental historian, with a focus on the history of US environmental politics and policy. He teaches courses on energy and environmental policy, climate change, and environmental history. Turner received his PhD from Princeton University.