The revolving door at Tesla’s C-suite just keeps spinning.
Troy Jones — Tesla’s vice president of sales, service, and delivery — has left the company, according to the Wall Street Journal. He had worked at the company for 15 years.
The sales boss is leaving right when the company faces an unenviable storm of plummeting deliveries and mounting investor anxiety.
Last quarter, drivers bought just over 384,000 Tesla EVs, a 14 percent drop from the year before.
While the company managed to eke out a modest uptick from the previous quarter, it still fell short of Wall Street’s already-tempered expectations.
The company has tried to entice buyers with increasingly aggressive discounts.
This year, Tesla has leaned on design updates in an attempt to refresh its lineup. Its best-selling vehicles — the Model 3 sedan and Model Y SUV — received mid-cycle facelifts.
But the underlying vehicle technology hasn’t received major updates. Meanwhile, new products have consistently underperformed Musk’s promises.
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For example, when Musk unveiled the Cybertruck, he vowed the futuristic pickup would offer a 500-mile driving range.
Real-world owners have reported less than 300 miles of battery power on American roads.
He’s also consistently said the company was close to launching self-driving vehicles across the US: only a few dozen have hit the road in Texas, far fewer than the millions the top boss has promised for years.
Sales in China and Europe remain weak points for the American-made car company.
In both markets, customers are flocking to domestic manufacturers. Chinese EV companies have rolled out massive technology upgrades, while German automakers have recaptured consumer intrigue.
Volkswagen’s electric vehicle sales have increased 89 percent in Europe for the first half of the year to 347,000 vehicles.
Tesla’s share price has dipped 17 percent this year. It lost around 0.8 percent after the Wall Street Journal broke today’s news.
Jones’ exit marks yet another high-profile departure from Elon Musk’s increasingly turbulent empire. The electric carmaker has seen several top bosses leave in 2025.
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Last month, Omead Afshar, the company’s head of manufacturing, and Jenna Ferrua, the director of human resources in America, also left.
Milan Kovac, a core engineer behind the company’s Optimus humanoid robot, also departed in early June.
‘I want to thank Elon Musk from the bottom of my heart for his trust and teachings over the decade we’ve worked together,’ Kovac wrote on X after his departure.
‘I am forever grateful. Tesla will win, I guarantee you that.’
The latest departure also comes less than a week after Linda Yaccarino resigned from her role leading Musk’s social media and AI company, X.
Tesla didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.