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Reports from Forbes and Bloomberg suggest that
one of Tesla’s executive officers has left the
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company.
Forbes reported Thursday morning that CEO Elon
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Musk fired Omi Afshar, the head of operations
in Europe and North America.
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Bloomberg reported later that day that Afshar
left the company.
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Both reports cited anonymous sources.
Two of Bloomberg’s sources said that Afshar’s
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name was no longer in the company’s internal
directory.
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Neither report disclosed a reason for the
departure, and neither Tesla,
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Musk, nor Afshar have commented on the.
Development.
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According to Afshar’s LinkedIn profile, he had
worked in Tesla’s Office of the CEO since 2017
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when he joined as a project manager.
He became a project director in 2018,
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and his latest update in 2020 replaced his job
title with a cowboy hat emoji.
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Last October, Bloomberg cited sources who said
that Musk had promoted Afshar to lead Tesla’s
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operations in Europe and North America.
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Afshar also spent some time in Musk’s SpaceX in
2022.
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Afshar’s name appeared in the news in 2023 when
the SEC and.
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Federal prosecutors began investigating Tesla’s
secretive Project 42,
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a plan that called for a glass-walled structure
near the company’s headquarters in Austin,
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reportedly described as a house for Musk.
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Sources said prosecutors sought information
regarding communications involving Afshar.
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Afshar’s reported departure comes as Tesla
experiences declining sales in the US,
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Europe, and China.
Forbes reported that equity and analysts
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project a drop of at least 10% in global EV
deliveries for the 2nd quarter of 2025 compared
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to a year ago.
I’m Nolan Bastein.
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This is manufacturing now.