Elon Musk reportedly fires Tesla’s top sales exec

Omead AFSHAR, Vice-President of Tesla in charge of sales and manufacturing in North America and Europe, would have been dismissed by CEO Elon MuskAccording to Forbes.

It is not immediately known why Musk dismissed AFSHAR, who was one of his best lieutenants and his closest confidents of the company. AFSHAR, MUSK and TESLA did not respond to requests for comments. AFSHAR’s departure was Reported for the first time by Bloomberg News.

Afshar was publication For the limited deployment of the Tesla Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, as recently as on Tuesday. “Absolutely Historic Day for Tesla”, he wrote On June 23 on X, the social media platform that its former boss has. “Thank you, Elon, for pushing us all!”

AFSHAR’s departure comes at a time when the growth in the company’s sales has disappeared. Tesla sold fewer cars in 2024 than in 2023, the first annual drop since it started producing mass electric vehicles over ten years ago.

Musk’s involvement in American politics has not helped, despite his recent commitment to leave the Trump administration. Sales continued to fight in the first seme in the first trimester. European sales have dropped Almost 28% percent in annual shift in May. Tesla will bring in global delivery figures for the second quarter next week and financial results for the period in mid-July.

AFSHAR was not a particularly public -oriented framework at Tesla. He joined the company in 2017 and spent years working in the “CEO office”. He has assumed increasing responsibilities since; Musk previously credited AFSHAR to have directed the construction of the Tesla Massive factory in Austin, Texas.

Shortly after, however, Afshar found himself in hot water. In 2022, he became a subject of an internal probe After being involved in a special equipment purchase plan for a Glass construction musk would have liked. The Ministry of Justice and the Securities and Exchange commission have started to investigate These purchases in 2023.

Impermeable moved to SpaceX during part of this period And would have been involved with X for a while. Musk raised it to the role of Vice-president at the end of 2024 After another senior executive, Tom Zhu returned to China.

Bloomberg News also pointed out on Thursday that Tesla’s HR director for North America Jenna Ferrua was no longer with the company. She did not immediately respond to a request for comments.