--- description: Find out why Rebecca Tinucci was selected for the list title: TIME100 Climate 2023: Rebecca Tinucci image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- Nov 16, 2023 # Rebecca Tinucci Senior Director of Charging Infrastructure, Tesla by Isabella Akker Rebecca Tinucci is the senior director for charging infrastructure at Tesla—and, some say, the driving force of the company. In 2023, Tinucci successfully negotiated deals with other EV manufacturers to expand access to Tesla’s charging network across the U.S. to include other major brands such as BMW, Ford, GM, Honda, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Toyota. This move has effectively made Tesla’s charging standard the default in North America, giving the company access both to new revenue from non-Tesla owners, and to federal charging-infrastructure funding from which it was previously excluded. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-climate/6333178/rebecca-tinucci/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-climate/6333178/rebecca-tinucci/"},"headline":"Rebecca Tinucci","datePublished":"2023-11-16T12:35:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:27:05.273Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-climate/6333178/rebecca-tinucci/","keywords":["climate change","climate","Business","sponsorshipblock","Climate100Titans23","TIME100 Climate"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-climate/6333178/rebecca-tinucci/","name":"Rebecca Tinucci"}}]}] ```