Firings on charger team are latest complication for EV maker
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.
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...
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.
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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.
The latest wave of Tesla layoffs hit an array of departments, impacting factory workers, software developers and robotics engineers. Read the WARN filing here.
The latest round of job cuts means that Tesla has now slashed nearly 6,000 jobs in total since the beginning of this year
Elon Musk's decision to dissolve Tesla's Supercharger division sparked concerns about the future of the EV charging network, but plans for expansion suggest a sudden shift.
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