Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles
Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles
Tesla is also getting rid of its public policy team, despite robotaxi ambitions.
This is a death sentence for Tesla. I have a Model 3 that I enjoy despite its shortcomings. One of the deciding factors was the supercharger network. It's the easiest system I've used for charging. It makes all other networks infuriating in comparison.
A lot of people get Teslas for the ease of charging alone. If the network starts to falter, people will leave the brand even faster than they already are.
Tesla really needs to vote this idiot out of the CEO position before he kills the company.
Down in flames it is then.
I've said before that the supercharger network is their most important long term asset. They opened up their plug standard, other manufacturers are jumping on board, and they have the largest network that supports all those new EVs.
Only problem is that it's boring, and Elon doesn't like boring. So now here we are.
- Fired the Supercharger head and the entire department
- Fired the lead of new vehicle development
- Previously fired head of battery development
- Constantly “one year away” from Tesla full self driving, whilst Mercedes just launched geofenced FSD, with Mercedes assuming 100% liability during FSD
- Elon just had a out of the blue trip to China, appears to have ‘kissed the ring’ of Beijing, and hyping TaaS robotaxis
What’s Tesla’s USP to an investor now? The supercharger ‘lock in’ and early head start at the EV game are Tesla’s biggest boons, but the former appears to have been gutted and the latter has been squandered on a slow model release schedule
But definitely make sure to approve that $53 billion pay package, cuz musk is cleaaaarly doing such an amazing job!
All of which makes the decision to get rid of senior director of EV charging Rebecca Tinucci—along with her entire team—a bit of a head-scratcher. . . . Musk told workers that Tesla "will continue to build out some new Supercharger locations, where critical, and finish those currently under construction."
Many Tesla fans had been holding out hope that Musk would debut a cheap Model 2 EV in recent weeks. Instead, the tycoon promised that robotaxis would save the business . . .
Delivering on that goal is more than just a technical challenge, and it will require the cooperation and approval of state and federal authorities. However, Musk is also dissolving the company's public policy team in this latest cull.
Yeah that's the ballgame.
He realised electric cars are popular with libs so in a masterful gambit is destroying his company to own them.
Musk also told staff that he would ask for the resignation of any executive "who retains more than three people who don't obviously pass the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test."
What a complete fuckup of a human. Sad to see so many trusted him. I guess we don't have direct evidence of him being a serial killer at least.
Musk has been reading about all the layoffs happening at other companies who are now floundering due to the loss of institutional competence and memory, and goes "we need some of that shiat STAT!"
Anyone really shocked? Everything he owns is the greatest thing on earth until it isnt. Then he tries to sink it further
That's one way to stop a union.
When you have a narcissistic sociopath for a boss don't expect job security. All these layoffs and his insane letter will do is cultivate toadying, fear, distrust, cliques and a culture of backstabbing within Tesla.
Killed the Golden Goose moment
Outwardly this looks like steering the boat toward the waterfall. I'm guessing this is predicating another move by Musk to "prove" to the stock market that Tesla is an AI company that happens to make cars, rather than a car company that has potential AI products. And (if so) it probably ties into that remark he made about using idle Teslas as compute resources.
Ahhh, the trustworthy test. Sounds like the same type of test that Trump plans to use in his hiring process. Coincidence? I think not. All part of the fascist playbook.
I wonder what this means this for the SAE and USDOT adopting the Tesla charging network and connector as standard for future EV development.
Maybe the Saudi investors who own him have finally called in the favor and told him it's time to put an end to the EV transition...
Some hits from the current round of shareholder voting:
Yes Elmo, I'm sure that will solve your problems. Well done.
Well that's embarrassing
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Information reports that last night, the company's erratic CEO Elon Musk emailed workers with the news that he has dismissed a key pair of executives—one responsible for the Supercharger network, and the other head of new vehicle development.
The electric car maker posted its quarterly results last week and they paint a poor picture, with shrinking sales and plummeting profit margins.
While Tesla once had a strong first-mover advantage and benefited from Musk's marketing savvy, the company has frequently ignored the many hard-learned lessons of the auto industry.
Many Tesla fans had been holding out hope that Musk would debut a cheap Model 2 EV in recent weeks.
Instead, the tycoon promised that robotaxis would save the business, even as both of its partially automated driver assistance systems face recalls and investigations here in the US and in China.
Musk also told staff that he would ask for the resignation of any executive "who retains more than three people who don't obviously pass the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test."
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Crazy. I've been a long-term Musk supporter (because of meaningful business targets: EVs and Mars colonization), but these recent events I cannot support. Laying off employees while not at the same time demanding Universal Basic Income on a state level (so that no single corporation is disadvantaged) is a death sentence to the worker population, and that, I cannot support. I'm out.
