On November 2, 2023, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Musk reacted during a dialogue event with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London.
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Elon Musk fires two employees Tesla The Information reported on Tuesday that the chief executive planned to lay off hundreds more employees amid a dismal sales decline and a dismal pace of layoffs so far, citing an email he sent to senior managers.
According to reports, Rebecca Tinucci, senior director of supercharging operations at the electric car maker, and Daniel Ho, head of new vehicle projects, will leave their positions on Tuesday morning.
According to The Information, Musk also plans to lay off all employees at Tinucci and Ho, including about 500 employees on the Supercharger team. It’s unclear how many employees Mr. He has.
According to reports, Tesla’s public policy team, led by former senior executive Rohan Patel, will also be disbanded.
“Hopefully these actions make it clear that we need to remain absolutely core on headcount and cost cutting,” Musk wrote in an email, according to the report. “While some executives are taking this issue seriously, Most people haven’t done that yet.”
Tesla, which had 140,473 employees worldwide as of the end of 2023, did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
According to LinkedIn information, Ho joined Tesla in 2013 and served as a project manager for the development of Model S, Model 3 and Y, and was later responsible for all new cars, while Tinucci joined Tesla in 2018 as a senior product manager.
Two other senior leaders — Patel and battery development chief Drew Baglino — announced their departures earlier this month, when Tesla also ordered layoffs more than 10% of its workforce.
Tesla is grappling with falling sales and an intensifying price war that has led to quarterly revenue The company reported last week the first decline since 2020.
Musk makes surprising progress on rolling out Tesla’s advanced driver assistance solutions in China, the center of the electric car price war access Fly to Beijing on Sunday.
That trip happened just over a week after he scrapped Tesla has long sought to do business in India due to “Tesla’s obligations are very onerous”.
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