Herbert Diess, boss of VW, could have run Tesla
The unprecedented proximity between Herbert Diess, boss of the Volkswagen group and Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, has an explanation: the latter tried to poach the first to run Tesla in 2014.Voie here...
21/05/2022
The unprecedented proximity between Herbert Diess, boss of the Volkswagen group and Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, has an explanation: the latter tried to poach the first to lead Tesla in 2014.
This is a very strange destiny that our colleagues in the German specialist press recount. Herbert Diess, the current boss of the Volkswagen group, could have been Tesla's big boss. Information about an offer of employment from Elon Musk to Diess was confirmed by his entourage, who even stated that a contract had been sent to the German in 2014.
At that time, Herbert Diess was head of development for BMW. Within a year, he was confronted with the king's choice: either to respond to Elon Musk to take Tesla's levers, which was then in the middle of the design of the Model 3, or to become the CEO of one of the largest car groups. German, what's more.
Elon Musk, who had a double cap at the time, wanted to relieve himself of the responsibility of Tesla's CEO. History will want that he will still be, and in spite of himself, rejected from his role as boss of the California manufacturer. And Diess, for his part, will go to Volkswagen to turn the German group into an electric giant, after a historic dieselgate scandal.
Diess was an activist of electric mobility from the first hour and was the carrier of the i3 project at BMW. The same i3 that made Elon Musk laugh: the American had kindly mocked BMW's attempt to make an electric car at the launch of the i3.
Today, the atmosphere is fine between Herbert Diess and Elon Musk. The owner of the Volkswagen Group recently presented the ID 3 personally at the European launch of the car. But history does not tell what Elon Musk really thought, this time, about the creation of his counterpart.