People familiar with the matter revealed that the current US electric vehicle giant Tesla is currently the global vice president and head of Greater China, Tom Zhu, or is transferred to the US Texas factory.
Bloomberg September (December 8) quoted people familiar with the matter. Tesla's general Musk has named Zhu Xiaotong to the United States to help operate the U.S. Texas Super Factory.
People familiar with the matter said that Zhu Xiaotong has led some Chinese engineering team personnel to reach the Super Factory of Texas this week to assist in supervising its capacity expansion.It is unclear how long Zhu Xiaotong will stay in Dezhou, and it is not clear whether he will retain the position in Asia.
The representatives of Tesla and the Chinese representatives have not responded to Bloomberg's comment request.Bloomberg failed to contact Zhu Xiaotong immediately.Musk did not respond to seeking comment information.
According to Surging News, Tesla is currently working hard to improve the production capacity of New Super Factory in Texas.In June last year, Tesla said that the Texas Super Factory can produce 1,000 Model Y every week, and it has since reported that the plant's production capacity is not as good as expected.Recently, it was reported that Tesla plans to produce 75,000 Model Y in the first quarter of 2023 at the Geshaas Super Factory.Based on this calculation, the factory's weekly output will meet more than 5,000 vehicles next quarter to meet this goal.
At the same time, Musk was also entangled by Twitter's series of affairs.After his purchase of $ 44 billion (S $ 59.7 billion) to acquire Twitter, it caused people to question the distribution of energy, and also dragged Tesla's stock. The stock fell by about 50%this year.
Musk also admits that he has too many jobs to do.On November 16, local time, according to Reuters, many Tesla directors and former directors mentioned that Musk's prices of salary cases for Tesla's shareholders were considering Musk's next president of Tesla.
On Wednesday (December 7), the news of Musk's appointment of Tesla's new president is full of news. It is reported that Zhu Xiaotong will take over as Musk to become the new president of Tesla.
Public information shows that Zhu Xiaotong graduated from the University of Science and Technology of Auckland, New Zealand, and obtained a degree in business management (MBA) from the Fugika Business School of Duke University in the United States, with rich management experience and multinational work experience.
In April 2014, Zhu Xiaotong joined Tesla and led Tesla China Super Charging Station.Zhu Xiaotong played an important role in the rapid development of Tesla China Super Charging Station.During this period, Tesla built nearly 40 super charging piles in China, and built more than 600 destination charging piles in more than 60 cities across the country.
After more than half a year, Zhu Xiaotong quickly took over as the head of Tesla China.In December 2014, Zhu Xiaotong was appointed as Tesla Global Vice President and President of China. He successively responsible for the business of Tesla Greater China and the construction and operation of Tesla's super factory in Shanghai.
For a long time, Musk seems to have a lot of love for Chinese employees. He has praised Tesla Chinese team and Chinese employees many times in public.
At present, the annual production capacity of Tesla Shanghai Super Factory exceeds 750,000. It is the most capable super factory in Tesla and an important export center of Tesla.In November of this year, Tesla Shanghai's factory delivered over 100,000 vehicles, a record high; from January to November, the Tesla Shanghai plant had a total delivery volume of more than 650,000 units.On August 13 this year, the Shanghai Super Factory also realized the one millionth vehicle offline.
