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Tesla’s Cybertruck Chief Is Departing Electric-Vehicle Maker

A Tesla Cybertruck at the company's store in Vallejo, California.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Tesla Inc.’s head of the Cybertruck program is leaving the company, adding to a series of high-level departures this year as the electric-vehicle maker struggles with uneven sales.

Siddhant Awasthi, who oversaw the development and ramp-up of the divisive pickup truck, is departing Tesla after three years in that role, he said in a post on LinkedIn.

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