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The tale of Tesla'southward beleaguered Model iii product ramp has taken a turn for the bizarre. According to a pair of all-hands emails sent by Elon Musk on Sun dark and Monday morning, Model 3 production has been damaged and sabotaged. The electronic mail, which was sent to CNBC and has been confirmed as genuine by multiple employees within different Tesla divisions, claims that i Tesla employee launched multiple attacks against Tesla equally a whole.

In the first electronic mail, Musk writes that he was dismayed to learn about a Tesla employee who had attacked the visitor on multiple fronts. He states: "This included making straight lawmaking changes to the Tesla Manufacturing Operating System under false usernames and exporting large amounts of highly sensitive Tesla data to unknown third parties."

According to Musk, the disgruntled employee took these actions after failing to receive a hoped-for promotion. Needless to say, the company feels vindicated in that selection. Tesla has been under fire for several weeks for several reasons — Musk had a loftier-profile meltdown on his company's last conference telephone call and opted to deploy unusual contractor evaluation and performance reviews. A brake problem discovered during Model iii reviews (since patched) and the recent announcement that the visitor would cutting 5,000 positions in another round of layoffs intended to cut costs has kept the company spinning from event to event, all while attempting to ramp up Model three production to five,000 vehicles per week.

Tesla Model 3

Musk is leaving no stone unturned in his search for the saboteur's likely motivation.

As yous know, in that location are a long list of organizations that want Tesla to dice. These include Wall Street short-sellers, who have already lost billions of dollars and stand to lose a lot more. Then in that location are the oil & gas companies, the wealthiest industry in the world — they don't honey the idea of Tesla advancing the progress of solar power & electric cars. Don't desire to blow your mind, but rumor has it that those companies are sometimes not super nice. Then there are the multitude of big gas/diesel fuel motorcar company competitors. If they're willing to crook so much about emissions, possibly they're willing to crook in other means?

Virtually of the time, when in that location is theft of goods, leaking of confidential data, dereliction of duty or outright sabotage, the reason really is something elementary like wanting to get back at someone within the company or at the company equally a whole. Occasionally, it is much more serious.

Musk clearly isn't quite sold on the idea that the company's saboteur might exist causing problem for his own amusement. In the second e-mail, sent Monday June eighteen at 9:forty AM, he writes that another minor burn occurred on the "torso-in-white production line." Line production was stopped for several hours equally a upshot.

"Could but be a random event," Musk writes, "merely every bit Andy Grove said, 'Just the paranoid survive.'" Tesla's product line has reportedly suffered far more than fires than is typical for a manufacturer, though the company has also denied that these events occurred or that it under-reported its accident rates.

The Tesla Model three saga continues. All we're practically missing at this betoken is the thrilling plot twist in which the disgruntled employee is revealed to be Elon Musk's child from the hereafter.