Toyota Production Chief Moves to Tesla Motors

The current general manager of production engineering for Toyota in North America, Gilbert Passin, will no longer be on Toyota’s payroll, as he has moved to electric carrmaker Tesla, where he will take charge of Tesla’s vehicle manufacturing operations.

Now, we know you can’t help yourself to wonder whether the move is some type of a consequence to the huge recall the Japanese carmaker is making these months. Of course, neither Tesla nor Toyota announced the reasons behind Passin’s switch of… (read more)