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00:00Some breaking news I've just reported with Bloomberg Star on a hole that Hamid Afshar, who is a key lieutenant and has been a key lieutenant of Elon Musk at Tesla, has left the company in recent days. This is somebody that was in charge of manufacturing and sales for North America in Europe. And what sources are telling us is that he has left he's also no longer in the directory at Tesla. There's a lot that we don't know. Caro I've emailed Elon Musk to ask him what's going on and why Hamid left the company. You'll remember we've done some reporting on him in the past and asked about some reporting that he's been involved in about internal audits, internal reviews. But it's one of many recent departures from Tesla's and the market was paying attention with a move lower and look I shall had a tough job right It was last year he was promoted into the office of the CEO and he was overseeing some pretty significant areas of sales and manufacturing in some pain point areas, which has a largely because perhaps a political backlash to one Elon Musk. Right. What he'd been in the office of the CEO for quite a while. He's kind of like Elon Musk's chief of staff, so to speak. But then he got more responsibility and he was very keen on Austin getting Austin set up and I am interested to know what happened. But it's one of several departures in recent months of people that are kind of long standing and held senior roles in a period of time where Elon was elsewhere, he's elsewhere politically and also the sales focus has gone elsewhere. When I'm thinking about today's extraordinary numbers around shall Mes latest SUV going straight for the Tesla buyer. This is really a difficult moment for Elon. No wonder he's come back as CEO. Right so you know like the big picture is that Tesla in the future is focused on robotaxi and they had a successful launch of a small rig service in Austin, an optimist. But the reality is the bed and broader is batteries still selling cars. And in the first six months of this year, lots of data in all markets that Musk's association with the administration was hurting sales, but also like competition with hybrids, increased competition from other model providers, other name brands in Europe, for example. But in a Hamid officials case and again, to recap, sources are telling us he's left the company. He was someone so close to Elon Musk with a lot of responsibility. It's one in a chain of high profile executives. For example, Milan Kovacs, who is leading the Optimist program, also left that we reportedly say when we get more, we'll keep an eye on it.

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