A group of employees of electric car manufacturer Tesla I wrote an open letter to CEO Elon Musk from the company who demands that he is taking – with at least one employee who claims that he was being fired.
The letter was posted on a website with the name Tesla employees against ElonWith the homepage of the site including the sub-head ‘Tesla is ready to continue’.
The letter, addressed to ‘who does it’, says: “Tesla is at a crucial moment”.
“We are now at a crossroads: continue with Elon [Musk] If CEO and are confronted with further deterioration while customers leave the brand, or continue without him and make our products and mission succeed or fail. ”
“Tesla is ready to move forward. And we are ready to continue without Elon as CEO.”
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Neither Mr. Musk nor the car manufacturer have responded publicly to the letter, but an account created to share the letter on social media platform ‘X’ – which Musk owns – is closed but remains on other platforms.
The public complaint comes after rumors that Tesla board members were obtaining a replacement CEO in the midst of claims of dissatisfaction and suggestions that Mr Musk was derived from the car manufacturer.
Both Tesla and Mr Musk explicitly denied all the plans that he would be replaced – or resign – such as Tesla CEO.
While Mr. Musk is also the CEO of SpaceX – after he had handed the CEO rol of X to Linda Yaccarino in June 2023 – the primary care concerning the impact of the prominent position of the Tesla Chief was a ‘special government offer’ among US President Donald Trump.
The role of Mr. Musk on the board of President Trump – who was inaugurated on January 20, 2025 – coincided with Tesla who suffered dramatic sales dias worldwide.
The brand achieved its first annual fall in turnover in its history during the calendar year of 2024, and although it was a percent, it was against eight percent revenue growth for EVs.
The Annus HorribiliS led in the first three months of 2025 to even larger malaise in Europe, China, Australia and even in the US, with the Chinese rival BYD improved in the global sales race.
The largest hitches for Tesla took place in Europe, with successive monthly turnover in Germany and saw 45.9 percent down year at the end of April, with Tesla’s British turnover with 62.0 percent.
Tesla Australia’s turnover fell by 76 percent on an annual basis in April 2025.
“This is not because our cars got worse,” said the open letter.
“Not because of affordability problems. But because people no longer want to associate with Elon. That’s it. That’s the truth.”
Mr. Musk – who predicted a turnover increase of 20 to 30 percent for 2025 – claimed that he would pay full attention to his government role as a result of ending on 30 May 2025 as required by law.
The employees behind the new site are skeptical about the claims of Mr. Musk.
“The recent statement by Elon that he” re-focuses “on Tesla is not only tone deaf, it is offensive,” is the letter.
“It means that the hardships of the past six months arise from a lack of his attention, not of his actions. It shifts the fault to the people who have kept this company together.
“Let’s be clear: we are not the problem. Our products are not the problem. Our engineering, service and delivery teams are not the problem. The problem is the question. The problem is Elon.”
According to FortuneOne of the authors of the letter – Matthew Labrot – has therefore lost his job.
“I believe more in Tesla’s mission than I fear for the CEO,” Mr Labrot wrote on LinkedIn – as reported by Fortune – After he claimed that he lost his ‘dream job’ of six years for his criticism of the CEO of Tesla.
Tesla Australia told Carexper It is not aimed at Mr. Musk, but it is determined instead to get customers in the facelifted model Y SUV, an update of the best -selling EV in both the world and Australia in 2024.
The car manufacturer is also planning to introduce more affordable versions of the model Y model for a stand-alone cut price entry-level and Robotaxi fleet in the US roll out.
But there are still challenges, with the Robotaxi program – set to be introduced as a paid service that customers in Austin, Texas, in June – are now being investigated by the American security body NHTSA (the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration).
NHTSA – A department that Mr. Musk had proposed to lower the financing in his government role – has asked Tesla to offer more guarantees about the performance of the cybercab completely autonomous taxis in bad weather conditions.
It can see even further delays, which influence the rollout and the continuous performance of Tesla.
