Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Thursday, November 13th. Today on Forbes, Tesla's

engineering exodus comes amid shift from Core EV Mission. Tesla shareholders last week

overwhelmingly backed CEO Elon Musk's unprecedented pay package that could be worth $1 trillion over a decade,

but engineers running the company's main vehicle programs for its top-selling Model Y,

Model 3, and the controversial cyber truck aren't sticking around to see how things turn out.

Emmanuel Lamakia, an eight-year Tesla veteran and program manager for the Model Y, said late last

Sunday in a LinkedIn post that he was leaving the Austin-based company.

His announcement came just a few hours after a similar post by Sedan Oswathi, another eight-year

veteran who ran the Model 3 and Cybertruck programs.

Neither gave reasons for their decisions, though both mentioned new career steps, which they didn't detail.

They're just the latest high-profile engineers to leave as Musk seeks to shake up Tesla's business,

prioritizing AI-powered businesses, namely robotaxies and humanoid robots, that don't generate

revenue currently, rather than selling more electric vehicles, batteries, and charging services,

which do.

Earlier this year, Musk fired the company's head of manufacturing and sales in North America and

Europe.

In August, the director of Tesla's battery team left the company,

as did the head of its former so-called dojo supercomputer team and vice president of North American

sales and service. Even the head of Musk's much-hyped Optimus Robot Project, which the

billionaire said last week is likely to be Tesla's biggest new business, quit in June.

Aside from the fact that the poor-selling, much-derided cyber truck ranks among the auto industry's

biggest flops, Musk's prioritization of non-EV businesses is making the company less attractive

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