{"id":143160,"date":"2018-06-19T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/tesla-chief-elon-musk-accuses-worker-of-sabotage\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T09:56:00","slug":"tesla-chief-elon-musk-accuses-worker-of-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/tesla-chief-elon-musk-accuses-worker-of-sabotage\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla chief Elon Musk accuses worker of sabotage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has accused an employee of carrying out "extensive and damaging sabotage" at the electric carmaker.<\/p>\n

In an email to staff, Mr Musk said an unnamed employee made unspecified coding changes to its manufacturing operating system and sent sensitive data to unnamed third parties.<\/p>\n

The company did not comment and the allegations have not been verified.<\/p>\n

The matter will be investigated, Mr Musk said. <\/p>\n

"The full extent of his actions are not yet clear, but what he has admitted so far is pretty bad," he said in the email.<\/p>\n

"His stated motivation is that he wanted a promotion that he did not receive.<\/p>\n

"As you know there are a long list of organisations that want Tesla to die," he added, citing Wall Street short-sellers, oil and gas companies and rival car makers as being among them.<\/p>\n

'Extraordinarily unusual'<\/h2>\n

In a separate email to staff, Mr Musk said there had been a small fire at a Tesla factory on Sunday.<\/p>\n

It was quickly extinguished and did not cause any injuries or significant damage, he added.<\/p>\n

Image copyright Mary McCormack
Image caption Firefighters were called in to extinguish the fire <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The factory fire followed a video tweeted by US actress Mary McCormack of a fire in a Tesla car driven by her husband, British TV director Michael Morris, in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Tesla said the car fire was an "extraordinarily unusual occurrence".<\/p>\n

Last week, Mr Musk said 9% of Tesla's workforce would be cut as part of a restructuring of the carmaker, which has not made an annual profit since it was created nearly 15 years ago.<\/p>\n

After reporting a record quarterly loss of almost $710m in the first three months of the year, Mr Musk came in for criticism after he vetoed "boring" questions from analysts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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