Anders Bell is now the pinnacle of analysis and improvement at Volvo Automobiles, however not too long ago he served a somewhat prolonged stint at Tesla Motors as senior director of engineering.

He began at Tesla in 2016 and spent 6 years there earlier than ending his stint with Tesla in November of final yr. Previous to that, he labored with Volvo, so he is returning to the Swedish model. He brings some 25 years of engineering expertise within the automotive subject.

The information right here isn’t that Anders Bell is again at Volvo however somewhat what Bell brings to Volvo and what he has to say about Tesla.

You see, Bell was senior director of engineering at Tesla when each the Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y have been being developed and moved into manufacturing, so he performed an important function in engineering these two high-volume and very widespread electrical vehicles.

Bell, a Tesla Mannequin Y proprietor, really “unintentionally” drove the Tesla (he owns a Volvo too) to work at Volvo sooner or later. He appears to indicate he was fairly embarrassed by this, however that is not likely what caught our consideration within the Swedish language article posted by CarUp.

With Volvo committing to a full transition to electrical vehicles, Bell’s expertise at Tesla will probably make this a smoother course of. Bell acknowledged, “After I was at Tesla, there was loads within the media. Half of it was hit-and-miss. I had been to the assembly with Elon, I noticed the outcomes.”

His time at Tesla, each in California and Berlin, offered him with much-needed perception into the Tesla approach of creating and engineering vehicles. Most notably, Bell was there when megacasting turned a factor and that is one thing that Volvo plans to undertake. With first-hand expertise with megacastings, Bell can probably pace the method for Volvo.

Lastly, Bell made a somewhat attention-grabbing comparability between Tesla and different automakers. He stated that for Tesla, there was by no means a newspaper or print version. Tesla began out digital. Different automakers should transition from print to digital and this transfer does not at all times progress as deliberate, it appears.