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tesla cio and european public policy executive depart

2024-10-05

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whip bull report, october 5 news, according to foreign reports, in the latest round of resignations, a senior leader of tesla company left the studio at warner bros. discovery film production in burbank, california, on october 10. resigned before a robotaxi event held at the factory.

chief information officer nagesh saldi joined tesla from hewlett-packard in 2012 and was gradually promoted to chief information officer in 2018.

bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the matter, said sardi reports directly to tesla ceo elon musk.

sardi is known for building new tesla data centers in texas and new york.

tesla also lost an executive responsible for all business development and public policy in europe.

he was one of two tesla executives to leave this week.

jos dings joined tesla in 2017 after working for more than a decade at transport & environment (t&e), a european organization dedicated to promoting sustainable transportation.

after several years managing tesla's european government affairs, dings was promoted to director of public policy and business development for emea (europe, the middle east and africa).

he describes his job on linkedin:

lead tesla's emea public policy and business development team. we help accelerate the transition to sustainable energy through policy changes at national, eu and global (un economic commission for europe) levels. keywords climate, energy, industrial policy, incentives and regulatory credit, car charging, electricity markets, trade, data, assisted and autonomous driving, safety, artificial intelligence, circularity, state aid, licensing, batteries and supply chains. we also help companies decide if, when and where to launch our activities, including through our first european "berlin-brandenburg gigafactory".

this week,dings announced his departure from tesla after more than seven years.

in the post announcing his departure, the executive didn't explain his reasons for leaving other than to say he wanted to spend time with his family, but he did share some interesting insights into his work at tesla.

for example, he played an important role in establishing tesla's berlin gigafactory:

the company turned the corner and went into full expansion mode, and in 2019 i ended up working with the one and only peter lommen to find a location for tesla's european gigafactory. after elon agreed to select a site outside berlin, we began the journey of transforming the pine production forest into a model y factory as soon as possible. taking 861 days, a project of this scale remains unparalleled in europe. brandenburg is rightfully proud, but it also shows that only a company that dares to take huge risks can grow quickly in europe/germany. we obtained 19 preliminary licenses and won 7 lawsuits before getting the actual license and starting production.

giga berlin helps model y become the best-selling car in europe.

but he also emphasized that public policy has indeed caused some problems for battery production in european factories:

however, some efforts are in vain. technically, the brandenburg 4680 battery factory is almost ready, but has not yet entered production, mainly because the inflation reduction act (ira) moved tesla's battery project to the united states. the ira accomplished what the more than $1 billion “ipcei” proposal could not: catalyze domestic clean energy investment.

dings said he will be succeeded by stefano mottarelli, senior manager of public policy for europe, the middle east and africa.

dings is the second public policy executive to leave tesla this year, following the departure of tesla's former global head of public policy rohan patel earlier this year.

in 2024, since musk announced layoffs, many executives have left, and the number of employees exceeds 10%.

in may, tesla product launch chief rich otto resigned after seven years at the company.

otto's departure coincides with the departure of senior director of charging infrastructure rebecca tinucci, director of new product introductions daniel ho, and senior vice president of powertrain and energy engineering drew bagley drew baglino resigned.

artificial intelligence manager paril jain also left the company in the same month, joining the bot company, which he co-founded, after seven years.

separately, in may, cybertruck manufacturing chief renjie zhu resigned after five years on the job. tesla began delivering cybertruck in november.

in august, sreela venkataratnam, tesla's vice president of finance and business operations, resigned after making outstanding contributions to tesla's important models.

tesla shares have fallen nearly 6% in the past 12 months due to weak demand across the industry and competition from low-priced electric vehicles.