Overview
- Siddhant Awasthi, who managed Tesla’s Cybertruck and Model 3 programs, announced his departure in a LinkedIn post after an eight-year tenure.
- Awasthi says he led Cybertruck from engineering to mass production, guiding product strategy, quality improvements and supply-chain efforts.
- The Cybertruck has been subject to major U.S. safety actions, including a March recall affecting roughly 46,000 vehicles over exterior trim detachment risk.
- Tesla also announced a recall of more than 63,000 Cybertrucks in the U.S. due to excessively bright headlights that could distract other drivers.
- Tesla reported its fourth straight quarterly profit decline in October, with Q3 net income down 37% to $1.4 billion, as shareholders separately approved Elon Musk’s performance-based pay plan potentially worth up to $1 trillion and backed annual board elections and investment in xAI.