2018-04-02

@amir Uhh, hello, I need to build cars

@amir About a year ago, I asked Doug to manage both engineering & production. He agreed that Tesla needed eng & prod better aligned, so we don’t design cars that are crazy hard to build. Right now, tho, better to divide & conquer, so I’m back to sleeping at factory. Car biz is hell …

@amir Can’t believe you’re even writing about this. My job as CEO is to focus on what’s most critical, which is currently Model 3 production. Doug, who I regard as one of the world’s most talented engineering execs, is focused on vehicle engineering.

@vegamontesino @NoceraBV @WSJ @Tesla We release as soon as we have the data. Good timeline, bad timing. Doesn’t matter.

@NoceraBV @WSJ @Tesla Not criticizing, just as asking questions. I’m sure there’s a really great answer …

@WSJ Tesla policy is to issue a recall *before* there are injuries. This is absolutely the right thing to do. Yet there were dozens of recalls by other car companies last month, incl w injuries & deaths, but you only wrote an article about Tesla. Why so?

@OmarHoryy @TeslaMotorsClub Seriously! Obviously, I’m not going to do an April Fool’s joke about going bankwupt if I thought there was any chance it would actually happen (sigh).

@TeslaMotorsClub Lot of respect for NTSB, but NHTSA regulates cars, not NTSB, which is an advisory body. Tesla releases critical crash data affecting public safety immediately & always will. To do otherwise would be unsafe.

@Teslarati @13ericralph31 @w00ki33 Oh yeah, forgot to mention it actually landed fine, just not on Mr Steven https://t.co/HckB2OkJ5L