Jan Tastenhoye

Technical Manager Powertrain Toyota Motor Europe

Jan Tastenhoye is Technical Manager at Toyota Motor Europe, Powertrain design. Jan graduated from KU Leuven (Belgium) in Electro-mechanical engineering in 2008.

He started his career at General Dynamics European Land Systems (Mowag) in Switzerland, as Driveline Design Engineer. In 2011, he moved back to Belgium, and started working at Punch Powertrain, as Transmission Design Engineer.

Jan has been at Toyota Motor Europe since 2012 and has worked across diverse functions. From 2012 to 2015 as Engineer “Manual Transmission design”; from 2016 to 2021 shifting to Hybrid trans-axle design as Senior Engineer, and since 2021 as Technical Manager of that Hybrid design team.