Zhu's appointment to a global role comes at a time when Musk has been distracted by his acquisition of Twitter.
in the United States, driving an expectation among his colleagues then that he was being groomed for a bigger role.
Tesla country managers in China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand continued to report to Zhu, the notice showed. Zhu, who was born in China but now holds a New Zealand passport, joined Tesla in 2014. Before that he was a project manager at a company established by his MBA classmates at Duke University, advising Chinese contractors working on infrastructure projects in Africa.sleeping in the factoryZhu, a no-fuss manager who sports a buzz cut, favors Tesla-branded fleece jackets and has lived in a government-subsidized apartment that is a 10-minute drive from the Shanghai Gigafactory.
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