Senior Vice President of Tesla for engineering, Doug field (Doug Field) will not return to work after the long vacation, and will leave the company. This was reported by the press service of Tesla itself.
Team Tesla celebrates 7 thousand electric cars per week
We will remind, in the beginning of Doug field, the head of the engineering Department, went a long vacation. As said the representative of Tesla, the field was just going to spend time with family and not planning to leave the company.
At the same time, the media reported that the field work to guide the production took on Elon Musk, the CEO and founder of Tesla. Now in the message Tesla announced that Doug field has decided to move on after five years of work in the company. Who will take the place of field, not yet reported.
Recall that in early June, Tesla announced the upcoming reduction of about 9% of staff as part of a major restructuring of the company. Previously, Tesla reported record losses over the past first quarter of 2018. Losses amounted to 709,6 million dollars. This is the largest quarterly loss in the entire history of Tesla and the fifth record loss for the consecutive quarter.
Then the company stated that it expects to come into profit in the third quarter of 2018, if production of electric Model 3 will rise to 5 thousand a week from the current 2.5 thousand electric vehicles per week. In may, the level of production still has not been reached and then Doug field went on vacation. Yesterday, July 2, the company reported achieving a production level of 7 thousand electric cars per week, including more than 5 thousand Model 3.