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Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team
Electric-car maker's public policy unit also being disbanded as chief announces in memo hundreds more jobs to be cut
Elon Musk has shut down the division that runs Tesla's Supercharger business, dismissed two senior executives and fired hundreds more staff as the electric-car maker continues its restructuring amid a sharp downturn in the EV market.
Musk announced internally on Monday that the head of the superchargers group, Rebecca Tinucci, and Daniel Ho, head of new products, would be leaving along with their entire teams. About 500 people were in the supercharger group, the memo said.
Tesla's supercharger system is among the largest charging networks in the world, and was one the reasons the company enjoyed such a commanding lead over rival carmakers for so long. While the supercharger operations will continue, the move raises questions over the future of the charging business.
The entire public policy unit will also be disbanded following the departure of its leader, Rohan Patel, in the middle of April.
“Hopefully these actions are making it clear that we need to be absolutely hard core about headcount and cost reduction,” Musk wrote in the memo, which was first reported by The Information. “While some execstaff are taking this seriously, most are not yet doing so.”
Any manager “who retains more than three people who don't obviously pass the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test” should resign, he added.
Tesla shares, which fell 5.5 per cent on Tuesday, were down another 2.6 per cent in pre-market trading at $178.53 on Wednesday.
Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.
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The latest dismissals at the company come after Musk announced last month that the carmaker would cut “more than 10 per cent” of its total workforce, more than 14,000 jobs, in order to be “lean, innovative and hungry”.
The urgency of the shift was underlined by Tesla reporting a decline of almost 10 per cent in revenues in the first quarter of this year, its first year-on-year quarterly drop since the start of 2020. The share price has more than halved from its November 2021 peak of just under $410 a share.
The decision took staff by surprise. Will Jameson, who worked in the Tesla supercharger team, wrote on X that Musk “has let our entire charging org go”. Another employee of that division, George Bahadue, posted on LinkedIn confirming he had been let go.
He added: “What this means for the charging network, [North American Charging Standard] NACS, and all the exciting work we were doing across the industry, I don't yet know. What a wild ride it has been.”
When Jameson was asked by a reader on X why the entire division had been let go, he replied “your guess is as good as mine”.
Musk said in the memo that superchargers sites under construction would be finished and “some” new locations would be constructed.
The surprise move comes despite Tesla having built the dominant EV charging network with 50,000 sites globally and 15,000 in North America. Recently it has signed contracts with several rivals, including Ford, General Motors and Rivian, to use its NACS charging standard.
Models from other carmakers will be able to use its branded charging stations, potentially bringing Tesla a significant revenue stream, as well as establishing it as the de facto industry standard.
Tinucci, Ho and Patel are not the only long-standing Musk lieutenants to leave this year. Drew Baglino, senior vice-president leading Tesla's engineering and technology development for batteries, motors and energy products, resigned in April and Martin Viecha, its head of investor relations, said he would step down on the company's first-quarter earnings call last week.
In a post on X, Musk said the carmaker would continue to grow its supercharger network “at a slower pace for new locations”.
“More focus on 100 per cent uptime and expansion of existing locations,” he wrote.
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I dont know much about much but firing the supercharger dept seems short sighted when the gov is trying to build a charging network
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Because it's kinda dumb to compete directly against government? Maybe he's betting that Tesla won't get those gubmint subsidies because he let the heckin chuds loose on Twitter. I'm not sure how the supercharger network really works, so
. If there's charging stations already at stores and gas stations for the EV dweebs, then why bother building a new one?
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Superchargers were supposed to be the charging grid as far as I understood it, that was the government program
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Since the 80s, everything is privatized, the government doesn't actually do anything, it just writes fat checks to private companies. You're not competing with the government, you're getting paid a cost+ contract to deliver some half assed unmaintainable shit.
It's baffling because SpaceX knows how to cash in on this action, so why not Tesla with their charger network. I don't get it, but maybe Musky knows something we don't.
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He probably realizes country
wide fast charging that's utilized in any meaningful fashion 
would 
collapse the grid lmfao
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Yeah I read an article about how in Canada the government had to quietly back down from their "all electric by 2035" plans because the grid couldn't handle it on top of the projected demand from existing uses. I doubt the US is that much better off in that regard.
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I loathe simplistic explanations like "because he is a dumbfrick", but I really can't find another one. I think he acted rashly after not getting his 55 billion dollar option.
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Hes gone on record saying that the white house snubbed tesla and jerked off other major car companies for their contributions to the electric game (lol), so hes not really wrong in thinking he wont get that contract.
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Supercharger network is probably the main reason to buy a Tesla over other electric cars, not sure what their thinking is here
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didn't it become a standard? can anyone make them? or is it still only tesla. Is there new development that needs to be done for that team?
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The connecter is becoming standard now but Teslas get a cheaper energy price at them I think. A load of them stopped working during cold snaps over winter so there's still some development needed
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Elon r dumb
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This dumb butt neighbor could have used his X money to lobby congress to grant Tesla a fat butt contract, similar to AT&T with laying down fiber optics.
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Right?? Either electric is actually a nonstarter or dude fumbled the bag
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maybe he's replacing them with AI cyborgs?
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