Tesla’s head of Gigafactory Shanghai, Track Gang, who’s behind a variety of the automaker’s manufacturing success, confirmed that he left the corporate.
Track was certainly one of Tesla’s first manufacturing workers in China.
After a decade of working within the auto trade in China, together with with Ford and GM, Track was employed by Tesla in a wide-ranging position answerable for many facets of Tesla’s manufacturing operations. That was in late 2018 when Tesla began building of the manufacturing facility.
He’s credited with being an enormous a part of Tesla’s success in constructing, organising, and getting Gigafactory Shanghai to manufacturing in a file time. And later, it grew to become Tesla’s greatest manufacturing hub.
Final 12 months, Track was made Vice-President answerable for all operations at Gigafactory Shanghai.
He was additionally on the workforce that Tom Zhu, Musk’s right-hand man at Tesla on the time, introduced from China to assist repair points at Gigafactory Texas.
Right now, Track confirmed that he’s leaving Tesla. He confirmed this on his LinkedIn profile and in a letter to workers:
Right now is my final day at Tesla and I really feel extraordinarily lucky to have labored and fought with everybody on this plot of land.
Fei Wenjin, a not too long ago promoted senior director of high quality on the plant, will now be answerable for the manufacturing facility, in response to a Bloomberg report.
Track is leaving as Tesla’s gross sales and manufacturing in China seem like peaking with solely Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y at present being produced within the nation, which occurs to be the world’s largest EV market.
Tesla wants new and cheaper automobiles available in the market, which is more and more rising aggressive.
Electrek’s Take
As I’ve been reporting for years, I feel Tesla’s expertise exodus is an actual drawback. We’ve seen a ton of prime expertise go away and I’d put Track in that group.
Elon followers like to level out that they may go away for varied causes, and that’s true, however it doesn’t change the truth that they’re gone.
There are nonetheless loads of gifted folks at Tesla, and I want them luck. Nonetheless, based mostly on my shut reporting on this for years (I actually spend hours each week monitoring worker actions at Tesla), I can confidently say that there are fewer now than a number of years in the past.