I used to imagine there was a conflict that resulted in Cory leaving... now I think he got an offer he couldn't refuse.
A position higher than Munro had any dream of ever reaching.
We'll see soon...
Talented people have been leaving Michigan for better climates for more than 100 years. Cory might well be in that situation also. Admittedly moving to Palo Alto suggests tax situation might not have been determinative. As a graduate of a Michigan high school I understand the issues, unquestionably from many decades ago. From the TSLA perspective we might expect that much of the value from Munro is vanishing. Now we need serious dispassionate engineering and manufacturing expertise from people who are familiar with present and evolving technologies and materials. Right now we have less serious reverse engineering capabilities to help us have better insight. Anybody within two decades of my age is too old to really be competent to evaluate TSLA manufacturing, materials and design. Even supply chain issues are changing in ways unknown to older people.
One crucial component of critically negative views of TSLA is the inability to understand BEV technology vs ICE, and systems integration as a primary factor in BEV success. Very few people have been capable of understanding that. Even Cory did not really grasp those fundamentals although he has been in awe of their effects.
FUD can and will prevail so long as seemingly well-informed people fail to understand evolving manufacturing and design process.
Despite our justified disdain for the purveyers of FUD, most, like GM, and Ford, cannot conceive the new realities. Ones who do, like Herbert Diess, are almost invariably excised from their influential roles. That inability to see facts clearly is also evident in much governmental actions, both in the US and elsewhere.
All this has been known for a decade and is becoming more pronounced every day. Just imagine how Elon Musk feels when his accomplishments in both SpaceX and Tesla are regularly dismissed and criticized for their very success. Even here on TMC well-informed people are now very critical of his actions, not least because he has reacted strongly to discriminatory treatment, notably in California where those two companies are the only two large manufacturing companies retaining both auto fabrication and rocket production. reasonable people might think these companies should be encouraged to stay in California.
All these comments seem perhaps extraneous to Cory leaving Munro. Just possibly, he sees just how the South Bay not only spawned the revolution of personal computing, cellular telefones, auto manufacturing and, not too far away on the PCH is the mastery of cost-effective space technology and materials advances that feed back to the South Bay automaking people, AI applications and so on. I have no idea where he's going, but I am sure he's hoping to participate in the future, not the past.
FWIW, I've just this morning had another OTA update on my car, now routine, but unimagined by most OEM's. Does Cory realize just how fundamental that is? I think so. Good luck to him.
www.repairerdrivennews.com
www.teslarati.com
www.benzinga.com
/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/K6KFV7NMSVPD3EEPYXFDP3FCAA.jpg)
www.reuters.com
