Amid Tesla’s toughest sales slump in a decade, senior service chief Piero Landolfi departs after nine years, joining a growing wave of executive exits.
Tesla’s North American service director, Piero Landolfi has stepped down after nearly nine years with the electric vehicle (EV) maker. According to a Reuters report, his exit adds to a growing list of high-level departures as the company faces slowing sales and pressure on profitability.
Landolfi announced his decision on LinkedIn, describing it as a difficult choice after almost nine years at Tesla.
“It was hard because of the incredibly talented and passionate people that I had the privilege to work, sweat and laugh with as we were accelerating the world to sustainable energy, against all odds and in spite of what used to be the general beliefs about electric cars,” he wrote.
According to his profile, Landolfi has joined Nimble, an AI robotics and autonomous e-commerce technology company, as Senior Vice President of Operations.
His departure follows those of several other key figures. Troy Jones, Tesla’s top sales executive in North America, left in July after 15 years. Milan Kovac, who led the Optimus humanoid robot project, exited in June. Battery executive Vineet Mehta, software chief David Lau, and Omead Afshar, a close aide to Elon Musk, have also left in recent months.
Tesla recently reported its sharpest quarterly sales decline in more than a decade, with profits missing Wall Street expectations. While margins on car production were more substantial than feared, Musk has warned of difficult quarters ahead as government incentives for EVs shrink, before new revenue streams from self-driving software materialise.
