# People

Public roles named in coverage of the 2026 car and the 2017 design credit.

## Named roles

Launch interviews identify Lars Moravy as Tesla's vice president of vehicle engineering, and Franz von Holzhausen as design chief. The reference entry for the second-generation car credits von Holzhausen as designer of the 2017 car as well. This page does not add personal biography.

> Not yet published by Tesla. A separate 2017 exterior credit for Bernard Lee is not stated in the sources held here, so it is not repeated as fact.

Canonical: https://roadster.news/design/people/
Sources: https://roadster.news/sources/