People
Public roles named in coverage of the 2026 car and the 2017 design credit.
Key facts
- Engineering
- Lars Moravy, vehicle engineering lead
- Design
- Franz von Holzhausen, design chief
- 2017 design credit
- von Holzhausen is credited on the 2017 car
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.
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