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Why Tesla's Top Auto Engineers Are Quitting Tesla’s Core Money-Makers

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Forbes Senior Editor Alan Ohnsman joins Forbes Talks to discuss the "engineering exodus" at Tesla following Elon Musk's approved pay package. He details the departures of key engineers overseeing core, profitable EV programs and the risk of neglecting core revenue streams for speculative ventures like AI and robots.

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