File image: Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk walks next to a screen showing an image of Tesla Model 3 car during an opening ceremony for Tesla China-made Model

New book claims Elon Musk shouted at overworked Tesla staff

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2023-09-14 13:00:09

File image: Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk walks next to a screen showing an image of Tesla Model 3 car during an opening ceremony for Tesla China-made Model Y program in Shanghai, China, 7 January 2020

A new book has claimed that Tesla’s co-founder Elon Musk had temper issues and he shouted at overworked staff during the development of his company’s electric cars.

According to the book ‘Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk and the Bet of the Century’ by Wall Street Journal reporter Tim Higgins, Mr Musk said: “I can be on my own private island with naked supermodels, drinking mai tais, but I’m not. I’m in the factory working my a** off, so I don’t want to hear about how hard everyone else in the factory works.”

The outburst, according to the book, was in 2016 when Tesla’s vice president Josh Ensign and Mr Musk were arguing over time-off for overworked workers.

According to the book, Elon Musk got angry at a lobbyist for car dealerships in Texas, who was against Tesla selling directly to the customers and told the staff to “get that guy the f*** out of here”.