After a tenure of eight years, a Tesla engineer has quit the company — and directed a seething missive toward his boss, Elon Musk.

"I do need to address the elephant in the room: the main reason I'm leaving is that I think Elon has dealt huge damage to Tesla's mission (and to the health of democratic institutions in several countries)," Giorgio Balestrieri, a staff algorithms engineer who joined in 2017, wrote in a scathing LinkedIn post last week. "Beyond that, Elon's leadership and decision making seem seriously compromised."

Balestrieri worked on Autobidder, Tesla's energy trading platform that allows individuals and businesses to monetize the energy they store in battery systems, often generated by renewables like wind and solar.

According to Balestrieri, the company's battery stora

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