Tesla is having a really robust yr. Sales are down, the model has been tarnished within the eyes of some prospects by its CEO Elon Musk, tax credit score incentives that introduced in shoppers have now expired — what else can go mistaken?

How about two main program managers leaving the corporate in a single day?

On Monday, two Tesla executives who headed up main product initiatives individually introduced that they have been leaving the corporate: One who leads the Cybertruck program and one who leads the Mannequin Y program.

Siddhant Awasthi, head of Tesla’s Cybertruck program, introduced on LinkedIn early Monday morning that he was departing the corporate. Awasthi’s story is inspiring, as he first joined Tesla eight years in the past and labored his approach up the corporate ladder to lastly head up Musk’s imaginative and prescient for an EV truck.

“I just lately made one of many hardest choices of my life to depart Tesla after an unbelievable run,” the now-former Cybertruck chief wrote on LinkedIn. “Eight years in the past, after I began as an intern, I by no means dreamed I’d sooner or later have the chance to steer the Cybertruck program and produce it to actuality.”

It is unclear why Awasthi has left the corporate and, primarily based on his submit, it does look like on good phrases. 

Nonetheless, Cybertruck has definitely not lived as much as Tesla’s expectations. As The Verge notes, a latest Cybertruck recall notice from the U.S. Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration reveals that solely 63,619 Cybertrucks have been offered because the automobile’s launch in 2023. Musk as soon as guess that the way forward for Tesla trusted the corporate selling 250,000 Cybertruck automobiles per yr. Tesla is nowhere near doing that. The truth is, curiosity within the Cybertruck has waned because the firm claimed that it acquired 250,000 pre-order deposits in 2019.

Awasthi was later joined in his departure from the corporate by Emmanuel Lamacchia, the pinnacle of Tesla’s Mannequin Y program. 

“After 8 unbelievable years, I am transferring on from Tesla,” Lamacchia wrote on LinkedIn. “What a journey it has been… from main NPI for  Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y variants to turning into the Automobile Program Supervisor for Mannequin Y, the best-selling automotive on this planet!”

Lamacchia, who was the Mannequin Y chief for the previous 4 years, did lead the workforce behind Tesla’s most successful automobile. So, once more, it doesn’t seem any of those departures have been performance-based.

If something, it’s regarding that Tesla is shedding two gifted leaders on the tail finish of what has been a tumultuous yr for the corporate. Pair these departures with Tesla’s gross sales numbers and the latest information that Tesla is now trying to roll out a rental car service for Tesla automobiles, and it appears to be like like Tesla might be in for a really bumpy 2026 as effectively.