Reuters

Tesla sends Shanghai boss and aides to jumpstart US output

Tesla Inc’s China chief Tom Zhu and a team of his reports has been brought in to troubleshoot production issues in the United States, fueling talk among colleagues he is being groomed for a bigger role at a time when Chief Executive Elon Musk has been distracted by Twitter. Tom Zhu, who heads Tesla’s Asia operations, has been traveling with a team including Shanghai gigafactory manager, Song Gang, to Tesla’s plants in California and Texas, and was there as recently as last week, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. Tesla did not respond to written requests for comment from Reuters sent to its Shanghai and global media relations accounts.

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