Tesla engineering lead takes break amid Model 3 production issues

Tesla engineering lead takes break amid Model 3 production issues

Field has been instrumental to Tesla’s engineering and production ever since he jumped over from Apple in 2013, but his break comes soon after Elon Musk started personally overseeing Model 3 production in April. The CEO has acknowledged that Tesla jumped too quickly into automated production, creating bottlenecks that delayed the goal of making 5,000 …