Boston, MA – May 12, 2026 — ELECTRA AI, the AI Brain for Batteries™, today announced that Head of Marketing and Communications Giovanni Rossi will represent the company at the Cleantech Council Innovation Review on Big Battery Tech, taking place tomorrow, May 13, 2026, at the Nissan Advanced Technology Center SV in Santa Clara, California.
The half-day program brings together corporate innovation leads, automotive tech scouts, and corporate venture teams to evaluate the most consequential startups working on Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and Electric Vehicle (EV) battery technology — the two markets that sit at the center of the electrification economy. Q&A for the session will be led by Hyundo Kwon, Principal at Honda Xcelerator Ventures, Hideyuki Komatsu, Senior Manager at Nissan, and William Paxton, Senior Staff Scientist at Volkswagen.
The next frontier of battery innovation is not chemistry. It is intelligence.
ELECTRA AI joins the Cleantech Council program at a moment of significant momentum. The company recently rebranded from Electra Vehicles to ELECTRA AI to reflect a sharpened focus on its core product: an AI intelligence layer that turns battery systems from passive hardware into adaptive, increasingly autonomous assets across electric vehicles, energy storage, robotics, and other electrified verticals.
Giovanni Rossi, Head of Marketing and Communications, ELECTRA AI: “The Cleantech Council audience represents exactly the conversation we want to be in right now: the corporate innovation scouts and venture teams who are deciding which battery technologies actually scale. The room will be full of people evaluating chemistry, cells, modules, and packs. We are bringing a different argument. ELECTRA AI sits in a category of one — the AI Brain for Batteries™ — and the next frontier of battery innovation is not chemistry. It is intelligence. I am looking forward to showing how our technology already operates across EVs and BESS today, and where we are taking it next.”
A pivotal moment, in public.
Following the previously announced Business Combination Agreement with Iron Horse Acquisition II Corp. (Nasdaq: IRHO), ELECTRA AI is on track to become the world’s first publicly traded pure-play AI Battery Intelligence company upon Nasdaq listing in the second half of 2026.
Event Details
- Event: Cleantech Council — Innovation Review on Big Battery Tech
- Date: May 13, 2026, 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM PT
- Location: Nissan Advanced Technology Center SV, 3400 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, CA
More info: cleantechcouncil.org/calendar/innovation-review-on-battery-tech-2026
About ELECTRA AI (Nasdaq: IRHO)
ELECTRA AI is the leading AI-driven cleantech and B2B software company, accelerating the world’s transition to electrification by unlocking the full potential of battery technology. ELECTRA AI builds the AI Brain for Batteries™ — a unified intelligence layer that enables battery systems to be monitored, optimized, and controlled across their full lifecycle. By combining Agentic AI, Physical AI, Physics-informed Battery Modeling with Large Quantitative Models (LQMs), ELECTRA AI transforms batteries from passive hardware into intelligent, adaptive, and increasingly autonomous assets.
ELECTRA AI powers battery intelligence across every major battery-powered sector, including Energy Infrastructure (BESS for grid, renewables, and data centers), autonomous systems (robotics, humanoid, space assets), and e-mobility, helping make electrification safer, more resilient, and more economically productive. ELECTRA AI was co-founded in 2015 by Fabrizio Martini, inspired by work conducted as a Principal Investigator on NASA projects.
MEDIA CONTACTS
Giovanni Rossi
Head of Marketing and Communications @ ELECTRA AI
grossi@electrabrain.ai
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Additional Information about the Business Combination and Where to Find It
In connection with the proposed business combination, Iron Horse and Electra intend to file a registration statement on Form S-4 (the “Registration Statement”) with the SEC, which will include a proxy statement/prospectus, and certain other related documents, to be used at the meeting of stockholders to approve the proposed business combination. INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS OF IRON HORSE ARE URGED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS, ANY AMENDMENTS THERETO, AND OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT WILL BE FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ELECTRA, IRON HORSE, AND THE BUSINESS COMBINATION. The definitive proxy statement will be mailed to shareholders of Iron Horse as of a record date to be established for voting on the proposed business combination and other proposals. Investors and security holders will also be able to obtain copies of the Registration Statement and other documents containing important information about each of the companies once such documents are filed with the SEC, without charge, at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov, or by directing a request to: Loeb & Loeb LLP.