The wild ride of Elon Musk and the Tesla whistleblower
16 March 2019 |
12:28 pm
In June of 2018, a Business Insider article detailed how inefficiency at Tesla's Gigafactory in Nevada cost the company around $150 million. That information came from a whistleblower that the electric-car maker believed to be Martin Tripp, a former employee.
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