{"id":339501,"date":"2025-06-29T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=339501"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:16:20","slug":"elon-musks-leadership-under-scrutiny-as-tesla-faces-plummeting-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/elon-musks-leadership-under-scrutiny-as-tesla-faces-plummeting-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s Leadership Under Scrutiny As Tesla Faces Plummeting Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tesla has officially severed ties with Omead Afshar, its head of operations for North America and Europe, a controversial figure whose tenure was marked by both significant projects and tumultuous controversies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/elon-musks-55-billion-compensation-deal-annulled-whats-next-for-teslas-ceo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"This decision, made by CEO Elon Musk\">This decision, made by CEO Elon Musk<\/a>, comes amidst a worrying decline in sales for the electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer, particularly in Europe where demand has dropped sharply despite record incentives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afshar\u2019s rise at Tesla was rapid, following his role as Musk\u2019s chief of staff. He previously worked in biomedical engineering at St. Jude Medical and had a brief stint at Abbott before transitioning into Tesla, where he played a vital role in the construction of Gigafactory Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Omead Afshar, a powerful executive at Tesla and one of Elon Musk\u2019s closest confidants, has left the company. <br><br>This is the latest high-level departure during a volatile period for the electric vehicle maker <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YPcGUFKuBj\">https:\/\/t.co\/YPcGUFKuBj<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GqC2QBed2i\">pic.twitter.com\/GqC2QBed2i<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bloomberg TV (@BloombergTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BloombergTV\/status\/1938267927062487386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Can Tesla Regain Market Confidence After Leadership Shake-Up?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, his career at the automaker was marred by a scandal involving an order for &#8216;special glass&#8217; for a secret project, which triggered an internal investigation. This controversy led to his temporary reassignment to SpaceX as speculation arose that he was taking the blame for Musk&#8217;s ambitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite these setbacks, Afshar was promoted to Vice President of Operations just two years later, but the persistent struggles within Tesla\u2019s sales department seem to have sealed his fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Elon Musk reportedly fires longtime \u2018fixer\u2019 Omead Afshar as Tesla sales slump <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rVY9ke9y1T\">https:\/\/t.co\/rVY9ke9y1T<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mLQiDDHJbr\">pic.twitter.com\/mLQiDDHJbr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; New York Post (@nypost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1938301807198929173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports suggest that the automaker\u2019s declining sales can be traced back to a lack of new vehicle launches and Musk&#8217;s leadership decisions, notably the delayed rollout of the Cybertruck\u2014Tesla&#8217;s only new model in the past five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sources indicate that Tesla&#8217;s deliveries are projected to plummet quarter-over-quarter in both Europe and China, <strong>with an estimated decline of about 90,000 units compared to last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the automaker grapples with these challenges, the question remains: can Musk&#8217;s approach regain consumer confidence, or will Tesla continue to face headwinds in the competitive EV landscape?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla has officially severed ties with Omead Afshar, its head of operations for North America and Europe, a controversial figure whose tenure was marked by both significant projects and tumultuous controversies. This decision, made by CEO Elon Musk, comes amidst a worrying decline in sales for the electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer, particularly in Europe where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/elon-musks-leadership-under-scrutiny-as-tesla-faces-plummeting-sales\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elon Musk&#8217;s Leadership Under Scrutiny As Tesla Faces Plummeting Sales&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9265,"featured_media":339538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1434,8319,1471],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6849],"class_list":["post-339501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-ev","tag-tesla","content-category-lifestyle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339541,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339501\/revisions\/339541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339501"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=339501"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=339501"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=339501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}