Tesla has misplaced one in every of its prime executives in Europe in command of all enterprise improvement and public insurance policies.
He’s one in every of two prime Tesla executives to go away this week.
Jos Dings joined Tesla in 2017 after greater than a decade at Transport & Atmosphere (T&E), a European group selling sustainable transport.
After a number of years managing Tesla’s authorities affairs in Europe, Dings was promoted to Director of Public Coverage and Enterprise Growth for EMEA (Europe, the Center East and Africa).
He described his job on his LinkedIn:
Main Tesla’s EMEA public coverage & enterprise improvement workforce. We assist speed up the transition to sustainable power by coverage change at nationwide, EU and world (UN-ECE) degree. Key phrases local weather, power, industrial coverage, incentives and regulatory credit, car charging, electrical energy markets, commerce, knowledge, assisted and automatic driving, security, AI, circularity, state help, allowing, batteries and provide chains. We additionally assist the corporate determine on whether or not, what, when and the place to localise our actions, together with by our first European ‘Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg’.
This week, Dings introduced that he’s leaving Tesla after greater than 7 years.
In his submit asserting his departure, the manager didn’t clarify why apart from he desires to take time together with his household, however he did share some attention-grabbing insights about his work at Tesla.
For instance, he performed an necessary half in establishing Tesla Gigafactory Berlin:
The corporate bought by, and into full enlargement mode, and in 2019 I ended up working with the inimitable Peter Lommen to discover a place for Tesla’s European Gigafactory. As soon as Elon agreed on a web site simply exterior of Berlin, we began the odyssey of turning a pine manufacturing forest right into a working Mannequin Y manufacturing unit asap. 861 days it took, stil unrivalled in Europe for a venture this measurement. Brandenburg was rightly proud, however it additionally confirmed how solely an organization taking up insane danger can transfer quick in Europe/Germany. It took 19 preliminary permits and 7 received lawsuits earlier than the actual allow got here in and manufacturing may begin.
Giga Berlin helped Mannequin Y develop into the best-selling automobile in Europe.
Although he additionally highlighted that public insurance policies did contribute to some points for the European manufacturing unit’s battery cell manufacturing:
Some ache was in useless although. The Brandenburg 4680 cell plant is technically nearly prepared however not producing, largely as a result of the Inflation Discount Act (IRA) homeshored Tesla’s battery programme to the US. The IRA achieved what a >1bn ‘IPCEI’ proposal couldn’t: catalyse home clear power funding.
Dings says that Stefano Mottarelli, senior supervisor of public coverage for EMEA, will exchange him.
Dings is the second prime public coverage exec to go away Tesla this 12 months after Rohan Patel, Tesla’s former world head of public coverage, left earlier this 12 months.
We additionally reported that Tesla’s CIO left earlier this week.
Tesla’s management has modified tremendously over the past 12 months, each attributable to layoffs initiated by Elon Musk throughout the first quarter and thru execs leaving by themselves.
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