Ganesh Srivats, who joined Tesla in 2015 and eventually came to be in charge of global growth, is the latest in a [series of top-level executives](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-executives-factbox/factbox-tesla-executive-departures-since-2016-idUSKCN1IG2G2) to step down. His departure comes days before Tesla is set to announce its second quarter earnings. Cheddar's Kristen Scholer and Tim Stenovec break down the latest.
Wall Street is shaky Thursday as investors consider both the upsides and downsides of the latest signals that the U.S. economy remains in much better shape than feared.
Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure “white gold” in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile.
