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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has accused a Tesla employee of "quite extensive and damaging sabotage to our operations," according to an email obtained by CNBC. In the all-hands email to Tesla staff, Musk wrote that the employee had made "direct code changes" to the company's production systems, as well as exporting "large amounts" of Tesla's data to unknown third parties.
According to Musk's email, the unnamed employee claimed he had become disgruntled after failing to receive a promotion. However, the Tesla CEO also suggested the alleged saboteur could have been working with short sellers, oil and gas companies—whom he described as "sometimes not super nice"—or "the multitude of big gas/diesel car company competitors." Of this last group, Musk reminded his employees that, since the traditional OEMs have been known to cheat emissions tests, "maybe they're willing to cheat in other ways."
[...] Tesla has faced plenty of criticism about its ongoing troubles in ramping up Model 3 production. But that may have been unwarranted if those problems were due to sabotage. We reached out to Tesla regarding CNBC's story, but the company declined to comment at this time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @02:05PM
I disagree,
The rail infrastructure companies will likely grow as E-cars become accepted. Like it or not they are always going to have a range issue, and rail is more efficient than cars or trucks for long hauls. The more likely scenario is that as cars go electric, rail picks up the long haul slack as fuel prices rise. This is not lost on the big players, which is probably why ford just bought the Detroit rail terminal.
Note that transportation is not the biggest component of consumer energy use. HVAC is. Note also that Amtrak is federal funded as doesn't own the rail they traverse. So the the idea that they care is unlikely. Some of the private rail companies might care. But rail expansion is going to require a period of eminent domain unlike anything this country has experienced. The existing carriers are likely to end up with many more operating routes at highly subsidized rates. So they also benefit.
The cost of switching to a high efficiency economy is going to actually increase initial energy spending due to the utterly massive infrastructure costs. Over the short term many of the energy companies will see growth.
What is going on here is not about what the pie will look like. It is about bankers burning down barns so they can buy farms cheap. As far as sabotage goes, I can think of 3 companies and 1 government agency that GM has fragged over the past 30 years. And I haven't been paying attention that much. So yes, this sort of thing is totally in their wheelhouse.
Personally I hope it's a ruse. The shorts short, and find themselves with their dicks in their hands when Tesla makes their numbers anyway.