Tesla Team

Song will join Chinese renewable energy group Envision and is set to take on a supply chain management role, according to Reuters.

Song Gang joined Tesla Shanghai in December 2018 and was the No. 1 employee at Giga Shanghai.

It's not an easy work, however, as some of the laid-off Tesla employees have joined brands including Nio Onvo.

Tesla is escalating the scale of layoffs in China, with more cuts starting earlier this week, extending mid-April cuts, according to Bloomberg.

China is Tesla's second-largest market after the US, contributing 34.23 percent of its global deliveries in the first quarter.

Earlier this week, Tesla began notifying some employees on the battery cell assembly lines at the first phase of its plant in Shanghai about that layoff, according to Bloomberg.

Zhu, 43, has been officially named senior vice president of Tesla's automotive business.

Chinese consumers don't really have a lot of options when it comes to buying EVs right now, and the country's NEV market is far from a zero-sum game, said Tesla's Grace Tao.

Tesla China chief Tom Zhu has reportedly been promoted to run the electric vehicle maker's US assembly plants as well as sales operations in North America and Europe.

The change is another sign that Zhu is fading from Tesla's China operations, local media report says.