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Until 2014, Cristina Balan was a rising star within the electric car firm in the us. She spoke to our Technology Editor zoe kleinman. I was the only woman in the team, like engineering. And in the beginning, it was great. In the early days, Cristina Balan was doing so well at tesla, her initials were engraved on the cars batteries, but she says it wasnt long before things took a turn for the worse. Everything went south when i realised that they were hiding some critical safety issues. She claims they pretended that they didnt know. And you decided to go right to the top. You went to elon musk himself . I tried to. And what exactly was the safety concern . They realised that they make a Design Engineering mistake on the carpets. You know, the carpets that you ....
They were hiding some critical safety issues. She claims, they pretendeds that they didnt know. And you decided to go right to the top. You went to elon musk himself . I tried to. And what exactly was the safety concern . They realised that they make a Design Engineering mistake on the carpets. You know, every the carpets that you have on under the adults and in the front of the car. So what happened is those carpets, they were curling under the brake and under the acceleration. Cristina further claims that shed heard there were complaints made about this issue. So she believes tesla was aware of it. She claims that when she shared her worries, teslas management turned hostile. She lost herjob, sued the firm and won. But then tesla did something unexpected. They dare to accuse me of serious crimes like embezzlement. Theyjust purely invented those with one scope in mind, to give a lesson to everybody who dare to speak up. Tesla ....