Tesla is building a massive factory in Shanghai, the first wholly foreign-owned car plant in China. WSJ’s Trefor Moss explains why it’s doing so even as U.S.-China trade tensions heat up. Photo illustration: Crystal TaiTesla Inc.’s latest C-suite shake-up will thrust a 34-year-old relative unknown into the spotlight as financial chief of one of Silicon Valley’s most heavily scrutinized companies. The announcement late Wednesday showed Elon Musk’s penchant for surprising investors, when at the end of a quarterly analysts’ call the car-making CEO unexpectedly said he was replacing his longtime confidant, Deepak Ahuja, with “Zach,” without providing his last name.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 31, 2019 11:48 UTC