{"id":5335,"date":"2019-07-01T13:36:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T18:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=5335"},"modified":"2019-07-01T13:36:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T18:36:36","slug":"lucid-motors-hires-former-tesla-production-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=5335","title":{"rendered":"Lucid Motors Hires Former Tesla Production Executive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>July 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Lucid Motors said on Monday it hired Tesla Inc&#8217;s former vice president of production at its Freemont factory, Peter Hochholdinger, as vice president of manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Newark, California-based electric carmaker in April also named Peter Rawlinson, former chief engineer of Tesla&#8217;s Model S, as its chief executive officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lucid, which has more than $1 billion investment from Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Investment Fund, was founded in 2007 as Atieva by Sam Weng and Bernard Tse, a former vice president of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company positions itself as being less of a direct competitor to Tesla than with luxury car makers such as Audi or BMW, Rawlinson had said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hochholdinger, a former production executive at Volkswagen AG, left Tesla last week after three years with the company. 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