The current general manager of production engineering for Toyota in North America, Gilbert Passin, will no longer be on Toyota's payroll, as he has moved to electric carrmaker Tesla, where he will take charge of Tesla's vehicle manufacturing operations. Now, we know you can't help yourself to wonder whether the move is some type of a consequence to the huge recall the Japanese carmaker is making these months. Of course, neither Tesla nor Toyota announced the reasons behind Passin's switch of employers. Still, probably trying to find shelter in case of customer unrest, Tesla mentions, when talking about Passin's career as vice president of manufacturing at Toyota's plant in Cambridge, Ontario, that "in spite of the recent recall, Toyota’s manufacturing production ... >> Read more