Their head of engineering left when they are about to “exponentially ramp up” production to 5K cars. I think thats news?
Tesla Inc.’s engineering chief is taking a break from the company, weeks after Elon Musk took over production responsibilities during the rocky ramping up of the Model 3 sedan.
Doug Field, a senior vice president, is taking time off to recharge and spend time with his family and hasn’t left the company, a spokesman said in an email.
Musk, 46, had asked Field about a year ago to manage both engineering and production to better align the two departments, the CEO wrote in a tweet last month. Musk was responding to a report by The Information that said he had taken direct control of production. The CEO confirmed this, tweeting that it was “better to divide & conquer.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-engineering-chief-takes-break-230819618.html
Tesla couldn’t tell us when Doug Field is expected to return. https://t.co/C8VQxK1pEV
— Lora Kolodny (@lorakolodny) May 12, 2018
h/t Old_Bit