On April 23, in response to online news that Tao Lin, Tesla's vice president in charge of regional government affairs, public relations, market and brand affairs in Greater China, resigned, Tesla officially responded that this was a rumor and Mr. Tao was working normally.

As soon as this remark came out, it immediately attracted criticism from many users on the online media, and even was dubbed by consumers as "the most difficult public relations in history".

On April 20th, An Jian, a new media platform for government affairs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Political and Legal Committee, commented: "No matter whether it is compromised or not, Tesla must face the torture of customers in China: knowing the hidden dangers, but turning a deaf ear and trying to" roll with the punches ",so that" bumping into each other "will continue to be an" invisible killer "on the road, ignoring public safety risks and not caring about" making money from China people and bumping into China's car ".

That night, Tesla apologized.

On the morning of April 2 1, Tao Lin missed the 20021annual meeting of Boao Forum for Asia scheduled for that day and did not participate in the online forum. On the same day, Xinhua commented: "If something goes wrong, it will not be completely changed. If the problematic executives are not replaced, there will be no sincerity in fooling things, and eventually they will have to learn again. On these issues, Tesla should reflect on the root causes. "

Late that night, Tesla said that he had contacted Zhengzhou Municipal Market Supervision Administration and reported the relevant situation, and was willing to fully cooperate. He urged third-party testing and appraisal institutions to conduct appraisal, restore the truth and provide relevant data.

On the afternoon of April 22, there were rumors that Tao Lin, who had previously expressed "uncompromising", had resigned. Tesla customer service staff said that it has exceeded the scope of work response, please refer to Tesla's official channels.

In addition to the rumors of leaving her job, Tao Lin is also caught in the storm of "changing her resume". On April 22, a self-media article broke the news that the introduction of Baidu Encyclopedia by Tao Lin, vice president of Tesla, was revised. Except for Tesla's related experience, all other contents were deleted, and it was questioned that Baidu Encyclopedia was revised by insiders.

In this regard, Baidu Encyclopedia responded in its official Weibo that "Tao Lin" edited the accounts twice recently for users of the Encyclopedia platform, not employees of Baidu, for the purpose of completing normal news events and correcting incorrect contents, and there was no such thing as "hiding something" or "internally helping to change resumes".