Report: Tesla lays off entire Supercharger team! [Update: Elon Musk says supercharger growth will continue]

[mark555055c]

Other than current contracts for installation ongoing, nothing new will happen, and maintenance will DEFINITELY suffer. This isn’t BS. It’s a very big problem when the petulance is the largest impact. He has great ideas, but does really stupid things here and there. This is one of them.
are they working on a new team? Who knows. All we have at this point is that the team has been disbanded.

I will wait to see if there is any suffering. Common sense says Tesla/Elon would not leave the SC network vulnerable, as it's 50% of the joy of owning a Tesla VS any other EV. ?‍

 

[Stinky10r]

Just mainstream media lies. Tesla laid a bunch of people off, but there is no way they are ending the suprcharging network as the news is trying to make it seem.

I'm concerned that humanity so easily believes nonsense and ignores all common sense, very troubling.

I'm concerned that, no matter how hard reality hits you and you still pretend that it's somehow fake. The supercharger team is gone. It's not mainstream media bs. It's happened. Now what?

 

[mark555055c]

I'm concerned that, no matter how hard reality hits you and you still pretend that it's somehow fake. The supercharger team is gone. It's not mainstream media bs. It's happened. Now what?

Let's give it a few months and see if the SC network falls apart like the honest and diligent news sources have printed, or, if this story disappears and is never talked about again.

Also, remember that time Elon bought Twitter and fired everyone, and then Twitter services went down? Me neither.

 

[L3it3R]

Twitter is his personal playground. Tesla is a public company and he has to answer the mail.

 

[Cybertruck2024]

My biggest concern is how many v2 Supercharger stations are still out there, which are really terrible for us CT owners. My hope was these would skip right over v3 and go to v4, but I'm not so sure anymore.​

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If by year end there's still a bunch of untouched v2 stations out there and they aren't adding more pull thru spots at existing Superchargers, then I think we have our answer of what's to come longer term.​

 

[flyinglow]

Is a restructuring plan, makes sense, and more of this gonna keep happening.

Didn't sound like much of a "plan" to me. Firing an entire department of some 500 people because their manager has the gumption to try to protect her people sounds more like the act of a petulant child.

The value and potential of a company is in its people. Throwing out that knowledge and experience overnight is just plain dumb, not to mention mean spirited. The entire Supercharger upgrade/expansion project will suffer dramatically as will the industry as a whole. Vendors and stakeholders can't find anyone at Tesla to do business with. Vendors don't even know when they will get paid because no one left behind knows who they are.

I am just flabbergasted and appalled.

 

[mark555055c]

This summarizes it for some folks better than i can or care to...

 

[Crissa]

This is the headline from a very known german newspaper. Is this BS again or some truth ?

https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de...Nbxy4DvyV1-icoFYRxRaYlXhwpyfmsxAUUPzFdKT8QU-U

Without giving any clicks based only on your title: NO
BS - YES

Sorry, there's nothing in that article I can see that contradicts Elon. I didn't read the whole thing, since it just seemed the same stuff over again when I got down about eight paragraphs.

Just mainstream media lies. Tesla laid a bunch of people off, but there is no way they are ending the suprcharging network as the news is trying to make it seem.

I'm concerned that humanity so easily believes nonsense and ignores all common sense, very troubling.

They fired basically everyone on the Supercharger team and the Destination team except those who were on current installs.

That's not nonsense. It's nonsensical you'd not believe the employees saying they were laid off, and companies who were arranging to get chargers installed or compatible with their cars that Tesla laid off their contacts.

Also, remember that time Elon bought Twitter and fired everyone, and then Twitter services went down? Me neither.

They did, and you're ignoring it. Not only did they go down, they've been bleeding advertising and the bot problem is worse than when he bought in - and they're not even LLM bots, they're just plain open spam bots.

I will wait to see if there is any suffering. Common sense says Tesla/Elon would not leave the SC network vulnerable, as it's 50% of the joy of owning a Tesla VS any other EV. ?‍

And yet that is exactly what has happened.

-Crissa

 

[firsttruck]

This summarizes it for some folks better than i can or care to...

WTF !!!

Sandy said CEO's legal fiduciary responsibility to shareholders comes before the CEO's responsibility to CEO's spouse & children???

BULLSHIT

 

[BlueLightning]

Cybertruck Ouch!

Electrek (2024) But most of Tesla’s Superchargers don’t support 800V – at least the ones from the previous three generations. Tesla’s new V4 Superchargers do support 800V charging, but they still make up a small percentage of Supercharger sites.

Not only does V4 support 800V it also has a longer cable. Tesla’s V1-V3 Superchargers have cables that only reach a few feet from the charging unit, meaning you need to back in pretty close to them in order to plug in.

 

[Crissa]

I also fail to see the fiduciary responsibility when the company is sitting on monies that are shrinking by 4% when it could be planning on future returns by investing in more factories. It's not like building these factories is going to get cheaper or coming into a crowded market will make them more profitable.

-Crissa

 

[mark555055c]

Sorry, there's nothing in that article I can see that contradicts Elon. I didn't read the whole thing, since it just seemed the same stuff over again when I got down about eight paragraphs.


They fired basically everyone on the Supercharger team and the Destination team except those who were on current installs.

That's not nonsense. It's nonsensical you'd not believe the employees saying they were laid off, and companies who were arranging to get chargers installed or compatible with their cars that Tesla laid off their contacts.


They did, and you're ignoring it. Not only did they go down, they've been bleeding advertising and the bot problem is worse than when he bought in - and they're not even LLM bots, they're just plain open spam bots.


And yet that is exactly what has happened.

-Crissa

I simply have to defer to the Sandy Munro video which summarizes my thoughts exactly and we'll have to agree to disagree. Cheap of me, but it must be done

 

[CyberGus]

More layoffs.

https://electrek.co/2024/05/06/tesla-tsla-launches-another-round-layoffs/

 

[CyberGus]

Not only does V4 support 800V it also has a longer cable. Tesla’s V1-V3 Superchargers have cables that only reach a few feet from the charging unit, meaning you need to back in pretty close to them in order to plug in.

I've had to tuck in pretty closely to Supercharge, but the camera makes it easy.

 

[BlueLightning]

I've had to tuck in pretty closely to Supercharge, but the camera makes it easy.

I can imagine, I remember the strain on the Supercharger cable if I failed to park correctly. lol.