Tesla will spend more than $500 million this year to expand its fast-charging network, CEO Elon Musk said on Friday, days after abruptly laying off employees who were running the business. “Just to reiterate: Tesla will spend well over $500M expanding our Supercharger network to create thousands of NEW chargers this year,” Musk said in a post on his social media platform X. “That’s just on new sites and expansions, not counting operations costs, which are much higher,” he said. After...
Reuters reports the inside story of Elon Musk ditching Tesla's Supercharger division. It turns out it amount to impulsive mass-firings precipitated by the division's boss pushing back on further unplanned layoffs. The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla's electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network's future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters. — Read the rest
Firings on charger team are latest complication for EV maker
The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters.
Tesla is now back peddling after having shuttered the team behind its charging network
Tesla's Superchargers dominate EV charging in North America. But CEO Elon Musk just laid off the entire Supercharging team and now its future is uncertain.
Tesla Re-Hires Some Of The 500 Workers It Laid Off Its Supercharging Team It looks as though Elon Musk may have slightly overshot the mark with cost cutting at Tesla. The company, which saw layoffs number in the tens of thousands so far this year, is now hiring back some of the 500 workers from its Supercharger team it let go, according to Autoblog/Bloomberg. Max de Zegher, the director of charging for North America, has returned to his role, according the report. This move...
Last week the CEO said Tesla will spend $500 million expanding the charger network.
Despite recent layoffs, the Tesla Supercharger network is due for an expansion, CEO Elon Musk claims. Tesla will spend "well over" $500 million on the Supercharger network this year, Musk said Friday on X (formerly Twitter), the social media network he owns, adding that this investment will fund "thousands" of new chargers and is separate from any
Sources say that after 15-20 percent of the Supercharger team was laid off Musk felt it wasn't enough and acted out
After axing everyone, Elon Musk is now rehiring the laid-off Tesla Supercharger team. Elon Musk's massive decision to lay off employees is firing back at him, as he has now rehired several employees from the Tesla Supercharger team after getting rid of them several weeks ago to save on costs.
After Elon Musk fired Tesla's Supercharger team, the fate of the EV charging network is unknown. There are 25,000 charging ports in the U.S. alone.