The head of Tesla’s Cybertruck program, Siddhant Awasthi, has announced that he’s leaving the company after more than eight years.

After starting at the company as an intern, Awasthi became the product lead of the Cybertruck in September 2022, just over a year before it went on sale, per his LinkedIn profile.

“This decision wasn’t easy, especially with so much exciting growth on the horizon,” he wrote in a Sunday post on the platform. “Tesla vehicles are incredibly complex systems that often don’t get the credit they deserve.”

It remains unclear whether Awasthi left of his own accord, was pushed out by the EV maker’s leadership, or if it was a mix of both. Spearheaded by CEO Elon Musk, Tesla has been moving to transition away from selling cars to focus on artificial intelligence and rob

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