Elon Musk reportedly fires Tesla’s top sales exec

Tesla Vice President Omeed Afshar, who is in charge of sales and production in North America and Europe, CEO is reported to have been dismissed by Elon KasturiAccording to Forbes.

It was not immediately known why the mask was dismissed by the mask, who was his top lieutenant and the nearest believer in the company. Achar, musk and Tesla did not respond to the requests for comments. Was the departure of the pity First report by Bloomberg NewsThe

Tuesday was as Afshar as recently Support post Tesla for a limited rollout of Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas. “Absolutely Historic Tihasik Day for Tesla,” He Wrote On June 28, X, the social media platform owns his ex -boss. “Thank you, for pushing us all!”

His departure came at a time when the company’s sales growth went missing. Tesla sold less cars in 2021 in 2021, which is the first annual drop since the launch of a large number of EVS more than a decade ago.

The involvement of the musk in US politics has not been able to help the Trump who is leaving the administration despite his recent promise. The sales fight continued in the first half of 2025. The company’s industrial-penetrated profit has declined by 71% year after year In the first quarterThe European sales have dropped About 28% percent Year after year in May. Tesla will report global delivery statistics for the second quarter next week and financial results for the middle period in July.

Afshar Tesla was not particularly public executive. He joined the organization in 2017 and spent the year working in the “CEO office”. He has taken up the rising responsibility since then; Kasturi had earlier credited to be led by Tesla’s huge factory in Austin, Texas.

Not long after that, although Afsar found himself in hot water. In 2022 he became the subject An internal investigation He accused of being involved in the plan to buy special material for a Glass building musk is knownThe Both the Judicial Department and the Security and Exchange Commission begin the investigation Those purchases in 2023The

Some time of that time, Afshar Has gone to SpaceX And it was reported that X was involved with X for some time. The musk has promoted him to the role Vice President at the end of 2024 After another top executive, Tom Zhu returned to China.

Bloomberg News also reported on Thursday that Tesler HR director Jenna Ferua was no longer with the North America. He did not immediately respond to any request for comment.