Friday 4:49 PM Tesla Motors (TSLA -19.3%) rises 6.6% AH, rebounding a bit from the bloodletting it saw after it was reported its chief engineer and vehicle/chassis engineering chief are leaving. Given that Tesla lacks the scale of larger automakers, the quality of its engineering (responsible for the exceptional range of its electric cars) is crucial to its ability to carve out a niche.
Friday 3:29 PM Tesla Motors (TSLA -10.2%) plummets after 2 executives leave ahead of the mid-year debut of the company's latest car. Blue Phoenix's John Licata says one of the departing execs is the firm's chief engineer.
