Mr. Luca Feola
Mr. Luca Feola has his background studies as a Mechanical Engineer. He spent the first part of this career, from 2012 to 2019, in the private sector in the automotive domain working for Toyota Motor Europe in Brussels.
While at Toyota Motor Europe, he was responsible for development and quality of electric and hybrid powertrains components such as the battery, the inverter and the transmission systems sold in Europe. He returned to Italy for one-year period to work for Toyota Italy in order to gain customer-facing experience. During the last part of his career in Toyota Motor Europe, he managed the quality and the development of a commercial vehicle realised in partnership with Peugeot-Citroen.
He moved to public sector in the former European Commission Executive Agency INEA (now CINEA – European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency) in 2019, where he joined the Horizon 2020 – Transport research team. He currently manages a portfolio of 17 projects, split between Battery development projects and Green Vehicles projects.