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 & Setting (T&E), a European group selling sustainable transport.
After a couple 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 crew. We assist speed up the transition to sustainable vitality via coverage change at nationwide, EU and world (UN-ECE) degree. Key phrases local weather, vitality, industrial coverage, incentives and regulatory credit, automobile charging, electrical energy markets, commerce, knowledge, assisted and automatic driving, security, AI, circularity, state assist, 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 via 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 aside from he needs to take time along with his household, however he did share some fascinating insights about his work at Tesla.
For instance, he performed an necessary half in establishing Tesla Gigafactory Berlin:
The corporate acquired via, 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 website simply outdoors 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 dimension. Brandenburg was rightly proud, however it additionally confirmed how solely an organization taking up insane threat can transfer quick in Europe/Germany. It took 19 preliminary permits and 7 gained lawsuits earlier than the actual allow got here in and manufacturing might begin.
Giga Berlin helped Mannequin Y grow to be 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 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 vitality funding.
Dings says that Stefano Mottarelli, senior supervisor of public coverage for EMEA, will change 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 resulting from layoffs initiated by Elon Musk through the first quarter and thru execs leaving by themselves.
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