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General Motors Executive Vice President Global Manufacturing and Labor Relations Gerald Johnson (middle) watches as engineers and technicians set-up and test the machines that will be used to manufacture Level 1 face masks at a plant in Warren, Michigan.Photo by John F. Martin for General MotorsDETROIT – General Motors' long-time head of manufacturing is retiring, and the company has hired a former Tesla and Google executive to fill his shoes.The Detroit automaker said on Tuesday that Gerald Johnson, executive vice…

An ex-Tesla factory worker took the stand following a lawsuit he filed against the company for racial discrimination from mid-2015 through 2016. Owen Diaz, a Black former escalator worker at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California claims he was subjected to racially discriminatory comments and actions from his coworkers over the nine months he worked at the company’s factory.Tesla Investors Not Happy With Mr. Tweet's TweetsDiaz took the stand on Wednesday and according to Reuters became emotional as he testified that the…

Electric boating is quickly becoming a fascinating industry with a growing list of players offering high-tech watercraft. The latest high-performance electric speedboat planning to hit the waters is the R30 from Blue Innovations Group (BIG). BIG was founded by Tesla’s former head of global manufacturing John Vo. He ran Tesla’s manufacturing from 2011 to 2017 and knows a thing or two about building electric vehicles, though boats are certainly new territory for Vo. We spoke about the growing…

The former head of Tesla Inc.’s Australian operations, Kurt Schlosser, admitted to insider trading. The former head of Tesla Inc.'s Australian operations, Kurt Schlosser, admitted to insider trading after learning that the US electric carmaker had struck a supply deal with a publicly traded lithium producer, Australia's securities regulator said. Schlosser bought 86,478 shares in Piedmont Lithium Ltd. on Sept. 16., 2020 after becoming aware that Tesla had reached an agreement with the mining company, the Australian…

Former Tesla Autopilot software engineer CJ Moore, who left the electric vehicle company to join Apple’s secretive car project last year, has now joined an Orlando, Florida-based lidar company Luminar, as vice president of software. The company said that Moore will lead Luminar’s global software development team, and will be instrumental in advancing Sentinel, Luminar’s full-stack advanced safety and autonomous solution. “With industry-defining technology and now nearly a dozen major commercial wins in hand, Luminar is…