Head of Tesla China resigns after nine months – report

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After just nine months of being appointed the head of Tesla China, Veronica Wu has resigned from the position, according to a report from Bloomberg. Prior to coming aboard Tesla to replace her predecessor, Kingston Chang, Wu was tenured at Apple Inc.

Her successor, Tom Zhu, is the current head of the carmaker’s charging network development in China. Currently, there is still no clear indication on when Wu will officially cease to be active. It was made known that Wu did not immediately respond to calls regarding the news.

Wu’s resignation comes just after seven months since the introduction of the Tesla Model S into the local market. With plans already in motion for the Model S to be assembled in China within the next few years, it would appear that this hiccup in management has not adversely affected the firm.

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In a company-issued email, it was stated that “we (Tesla) remain confident in the Chinese market. We’ll continue to focus on providing an amazing experience to all customers, so that they can become our advocates and help us accelerate the transition to sustainable transportation.”

After the United States, specifically the state of California, China remains as one of Tesla’s biggest market. Currently, the firm has a total of nine dealerships all over the nation and has entered deals with companies such as Soho China Ltd. and China Unicorn to further expand its supercharger infrastructure.

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Gregory Sze

An “actor” by training, Gregory Sze realised that he has had enough of drama in his life. Following his number one passion (acting was actually number two), he decided to make the jump into the realm of automotive journalism. He appreciates the simple things in life – a simple car with nothing but back-to-basics mechanical engineering and minimal electronics on board.

 

Comments

  • jolly_idiot (Member) on Dec 17, 2014 at 4:38 pm

    If head of proton aka dr.m resign then its a big news.

    Or mabbe d old fart die is even a bigger news.

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    • polll on Dec 17, 2014 at 4:52 pm

      jolly good news then

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    • I prefer latter the most.

      Don’t start jumping on me but look at his ‘contributions’ towards the nation. It is better off without him. We all might be driving a more safer and affordable continental cars on the road now.

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      • Those who thumb down must be the cronies……

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        • flx sv on Dec 17, 2014 at 10:38 pm

          Iam from Singapore and I find that Malaysia is great place to buy and own a car. It’s cheap to insure and the roadtax is peanuts compared to Singapore. If you don’t have the budget there always an option in every level, unlike us where everything is expensive. Done may argue that our currency is high but if you Google you can find that proton’s pre facelift blm was selling for $110,000 SGD and you lot still complain about everything.

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          • Shh. Don’t complain about your land of milk and honey. According to Malaysian theory, you must bersyukur to your home country cuz thats where everyone wants to migrate to. Malaysia can go die, thats what they say.

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          • Why don’t you compare with other countries?
            We can afford your car over there if the majority here are drawing salary in your currency every month. And why do you need a car if you have such complete public transport there?

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  • seancorr (Member) on Dec 17, 2014 at 5:40 pm

    Can’t wait for them to setup shop here provided the federal government doesn’t f*** up no thanks to dinosaur policies that a certain Mr. M started…

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  • Our country really needs to adopt more green technologies in order to be the hub of these sector in ASEAN and move towards an advance nation…. And not backwards!

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