Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, on Sunday sent an email to all of his employees alleging that an “extensive and damaging sabotage” was done by a Tesla employee.
According to the chief executive officer’s email, the company will start a detailed investigation this week, which they hope it will find the full extent of the damage done by an employee who changed the code of an internal project and exposed data to third parties.
“The full extent of his actions are not yet clear, but what he has admitted to so far is pretty bad,” Musk wrote, adding that the unnamed employee supposedly took action against the company after being passed up for a promotion.
According to CNBC, he went on to say that there “may be considerably more to this situation than meets the eye,” noting that “there are a long list of organizations that want Tesla to die.” Musk listed “oil & gas companies” and “Wall Street short sellers” as being among the company’s potential enemies.
Meanwhile, Tesla announced last week that 9 percent of its workforce will be laid off as part of corporate restructuring.
The electric car producer is doubling its efforts in order to meet its goal of producing 5,000 Model 3s. The rise of production quote is the company’s attempt to offer a more affordable car that would allow it to break into the broader consumer market.
Meanwhile, the state of Florida’s Space Florida initiative is likely to award Musk’s SpaceX nearly $15 million in support of the company’s recently-publicized plan to build a new Falcon rocket refurbishment facility and launch control center on Kennedy Space Center property.
All things considered, such an investment would be an extremely savvy move for the state, potentially speeding up an expansion that will pave the way, quite literally in terms of infrastructure, for SpaceX to support a dramatically larger launch cadence in Florida.
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