Thomas Healy is the driving force behind Massachusetts-based, clean energy start-up Hyliion. As a mechanical engineer and motorsports racer, he set out to revolutionize the trucking market using the advantages of hybrid technology.

The Hyliion system involves hybridizing the trailer portion of tractor-trailers by installing an intelligent electric drive axle. The system uses regenerative braking to capture power when the trailer is slowing down, and reuses it to help power the trailer up hills. The company’s mission is to reduce fuel consumption and emissions from long-haul, over-the-road delivery fleets by bringing electric technology to tractor-trailers in an add-on solution.

Hyliion’s patent-pending technology has won numerous clean tech innovation accolades from the U.S. Department of Energy, Shell Technology Ventures, Wells Fargo, and many others. The Hyliion team also won the NASA Tech Briefs Create the Future Design Contest in 2016.

Mr. Healy graduated from from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering, and has been featured in The New York Times as a technical author. He has founded two prior start-ups, and was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for 2017 under the energy category.