I think you misunderstood your source [1]. He appears to be the CTO of a company that made a third-party app for Tesla owners, called TezLab. It does not appear

I think you misunderstood your source [1]. He appears to be the CTO of a company that made a third-party app for Tesla owners, called TezLab. It does not appear to be affiliated with Tesla, and appears to have even rebranded at some point from "Teslab" to "TezLab". The closest relationship appears to be that the CTO owns a Tesla.