Tesla has misplaced one in every of its high executives in Europe in command of all enterprise growth and public insurance policies.
He’s one in every of two high Tesla executives to depart this week.
Jos Dings joined Tesla in 2017 after greater than a decade at Transport & Surroundings (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 Improvement for EMEA (Europe, the Center East and Africa).
He described his job on his LinkedIn:
Main Tesla’s EMEA public coverage & enterprise growth workforce. We assist speed up the transition to sustainable power by way of coverage change at nationwide, EU and world (UN-ECE) stage. Key phrases local weather, power, industrial coverage, incentives and regulatory credit, automobile charging, electrical energy markets, commerce, information, assisted and automatic driving, security, AI, circularity, state support, allowing, batteries and provide chains. We additionally assist the corporate resolve on whether or not, what, when and the place to localise our actions, together with by way of 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 chief didn’t clarify why apart from he desires to take time along with his household, however he did share some fascinating insights about his work at Tesla.
For instance, he performed an vital half in establishing Tesla Gigafactory Berlin:
The corporate received by way of, and into full growth 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 outdoors of Berlin, we began the odyssey of turning a pine manufacturing forest right into a working Mannequin Y manufacturing facility asap. 861 days it took, stil unrivalled in Europe for a challenge this dimension. Brandenburg was rightly proud, but it surely additionally confirmed how solely an organization taking over insane danger can transfer quick in Europe/Germany. It took 19 preliminary permits and 7 gained lawsuits earlier than the true allow got here in and manufacturing might begin.
Giga Berlin helped Mannequin Y grow to be the best-selling automotive in Europe.
Although he additionally highlighted that public insurance policies did contribute to some points for the European manufacturing facility’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 change him.
Dings is the second high public coverage exec to depart 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 during the last 12 months, each because of layoffs initiated by Elon Musk in the course of the first quarter and thru execs leaving by themselves.
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