Tesla warns employees to not leak information

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It’s known that Tesla has trouble with leakers within its company. And it seems it’s reached the point where even the warning against its employees to not leak information has been leaked. According to the email sent to staff, it asserted that outsiders have been “targeting” its employees to get vital information to make sure they “see us fail.” The email warned employees that those discovered leaking information will be fired and have charges filed against them. In the past, information like production numbers and internal meeting’s phone number have been leaked.

Tesla isn’t the first company to warn its employees about leaking information. But with company dealing with some financial troubles, it doesn’t want to the leaks to affect the spending habits or perceptions of its customers and investors. It might not solve its troubles, but it would take out one more factor that could affect business.

Source: Engadget

Apple hires Tesla’s head of electric powertrains

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Apple might have scaled back its team that’s responsible for its self-driving car project, but it doesn’t seem like the company is giving up on the segment. In fact, a recent hire might mean they’re bucking down on it. Apple just hired Michael Schwekutsch, Tesla’s vice president for overseeing electric powertrains. He is now Apple’s senior director of Engineering at the Special Project Group, which is the division in charge of driverless cars. As expected, no one has mentioned what he’ll be doing in the company, but his background does tell us a bit of why Apple has taken him onboard.

Schwekutsch has a lot of experience working with electric drivetrains, and it isn’t limited to his work with Tesla. He’s worked on cars like the second-generation Roadster, the Semi, BMW i8, Fiat 500e, and Porsche 918 Spyder, among other EVs and hybrids. It’s expected he might continue on that path with Apple. But we won’t know for sure. We’re keeping our eyes peeled for any updates.

Source: Engadget

Telsa will use Chromium for its in-car browser

It’s well-known that Tesla’s in-car browser has its share of issues. So, when someone brought this up with Elon Musk on Twitter, the company’s CEO says Tesla is going to upgrade the browser to Chromium. Google’s open-source browser project generates code for Chrome and other browsers or vendors outside of Google. This doesn’t mean Chrome is coming to Tesla, but it could mean the Chromium code will power the new browser. What isn’t known is when this will happen. It could be something that will come out soon or many years down the line. A recent update fixed some issues with the current browser, which should be enough for some users until Chromium version does come out.

Source: Engadget

Tesla CEO Elon Musk reminds public that its patents can be used ‘in good faith’

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In an effort to combat climate change, Tesla CEO Elon Musk reminds the general public that all of the company’s patents are public and can be used “in good faith.”He believes that the problem isn’t the non-Tesla electric cars, but that there’s still “the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world’s factories every day.” As Fossbytes points out, the announcement comes out on the same day a Chinese national was arrested for stealing a major patent for Project Titan, which is Apple’s self-driving cars project.