Tesla has misplaced considered one of its prime executives in Europe answerable for all enterprise improvement and public insurance policies.
He’s considered one of two prime Tesla executives to depart 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 Improvement 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 way of coverage change at nationwide, EU and international (UN-ECE) stage. Key phrases local weather, power, industrial coverage, incentives and regulatory credit, automobile charging, electrical energy markets, commerce, knowledge, assisted and automatic driving, security, AI, circularity, state support, 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 way of our first European ‘Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg’.
This week, Dings introduced that he’s leaving Tesla after greater than 7 years.
In his publish asserting his departure, the manager didn’t clarify why aside from he needs to take time together 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 bought by way of, 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 website 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 undertaking this measurement. Brandenburg was rightly proud, nevertheless it additionally confirmed how solely an organization taking over insane danger can transfer quick in Europe/Germany. It took 19 preliminary permits and 7 received lawsuits earlier than the true allow got here in and manufacturing may begin.
Giga Berlin helped Mannequin Y turn into the best-selling automobile 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 virtually 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 depart Tesla this yr after Rohan Patel, Tesla’s former international head of public coverage, left earlier this yr.
We additionally reported that Tesla’s CIO left earlier this week.
Tesla’s management has modified tremendously over the past yr, each as a consequence of layoffs initiated by Elon Musk in the course of the first quarter and thru execs leaving by themselves.
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