Ford And BMW Executives Join Solid Power's Board After Investment May 13, 2021 at 10:07am ET ++ Ted Miller and Rainer Feurer will help the company achieve solid-state mass production. Investing in a company already is proof of trust: nobody puts their money on something they don’t think will pay off. Another evidence of that is putting someone you trust on the board of directors of that company. That’s respectively what Ford and BMW did with Ted Miller and Rainer Feurer, Solid Power’s new board of director members. Miller is Ford’s manager of Electrification Subsystems and Power Supply Research. That means he has “global responsibility for Ford battery technology research and development.” He has already worked with lithium-ion batteries at SAFT America.