This veteran Tesla factory executive jumped ship for EV rival Lucid:
The Lucid Air electric luxury sedan is to go into production in 2020 at the company's factory in Arizona.Lucid Motors, a startup maker of luxury electric cars that plans to start building its first model next year, hired a veteran Tesla manufacturing executive as investors and analysts wait for Tesla to report its quarterly delivery and production results.
Led by Peter Rawlinson, an engineer who helped develop Tesla’s breakthrough Model S sedan, Silicon Valley-basedsaid that Peter Hochholdinger has joined the company as vice president of manufacturing.
in September 2018, just after Musk incorrectly claimed he’d secured funding from the Saudis to take Tesla private. Lucid’s factory is to be built in Casa Grande, Arizona, midway between Phoenix and Tucson, and, initially, will be relatively small scale, with capacity to produce just 20,000 units a year.
Executive turnover has been unusually high at Tesla in the past few years. Last month, a key member of its
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