Why Elon Musk just fired Tesla's entire 500 strong Supercharger team

Why Elon Musk just fired Tesla's entire 500 strong Supercharger team

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[alan]

I think we are starting to get a better idea of who Elon Musk really is. Imagine working for Elon and being scared shitless of losing your job and wondering endlessly if you are next on the firing line. What a wonderful and caring company Tesla is.

[dynomotivedyno]

What's the truth?!?! Tesla ALSO fired the commercial destination charger team. Companies IN THE MIDDLE of installs are on hold, the work stopped, and emails to Tesla are bouncing!!!!

[jefferyshall]

I was already mad when they were opening up the Charging Network to other cars because it was going to make the system more crowded, now they're slowing down on expanding the Network?!?
I chose Tesla because of the charging Network. This makes no sense, they are having pressure on sales so they are reducing the MAIN reason people chose Tesla over other manufacturers!

[torben]

It is starting to remind me a bit too much about the time when he went in the door at Twitter carrying a kitchen sink.

[mcrkon]

If it turns out Elon fired Rebecca because she was protecting her department and pushing back on a number of layoffs, that would be very stupid.

[BlairSlavin]

Did Elon really respond “Hello everyone and welcome to my channel. I’m Sam Evans and you’re watching the Electric Viking”??? it’s simply amazing that he put such such a plug-in for you

[lockbert]

Quartz (citing Electrek) reported that the head of the Supercharger division, Rebecca Tinucci, "argued with Musk and tried to fire fewer workers than he asked for". Musk fired almost everyone in that department in order to "set an example".c

[lavectech]

One of the main reasons people buy a tesla is for the growing super charger network, hope they don't lose sight of that with their current robo taxi focus.

[markyounts]

In 18 months I've driven 39, 288 miles, 3 Michigan to Florida trips, 1 Michigan to North Carolina pulling a trailer, many trips to Chicago, Detroit. One time I had to wait 5 minutes for a charger all other times no wait.

[Crazy_Worlds]

If you want to encourage people to buy your EVs there are 2 good ways to go about it: 1.Make cars that people want to buy, and that includes listening to feedback from customers rather than arrogantly deciding what’s best for your customers, and 2. Provide plenty of superchargers to give people confidence that they can recharge their vehicle wherever they go - range anxiety is a real issue.

[drew]

Note to self, don’t work for Tesla, no loyalty or security for your efforts.

[cosmic_diver]

Nothing instils confidence in business than firing 90-100% of the staff they were responsible for hiring. A true master-stroke from the man who knows more about manufacturing than anyone else on the planet.

[jameswilson]

From a public optics view, this is disastrous because range anxiety is the number one reason most people are holding back from making the jump. From a Business viewpoint, installing tens of thousands of charging stations and having to keep every one of them operating while installing hundreds of thousands more... yep, get out now or find another way to do this is the smart move.

[ziggyshlemon]

We have a Tesla Y, live in Sydney Australia and we never need a charger in the Sydney Metro area because we charge from home. When we travel interstate by road the Tesla Chargers are currently strategically spaced apart to align with the ranges of the car. So I would definitely agree with the notion that they need to capacity build in the current location in accordance with increasing demand instead of building more charging stations in areas where people would just drive past anyway between key centres because the care does not need a charge . I would also say they can improve the facilities and amenities at the existing locations. This would reduce ques and turn-a-round charging times.

[tyranelewis]

That was a great take on the issue and thoughts many havent thought of as you expalined. Thank you

[charlesmoss]

I think chargers will always be a tough business model - they need hundreds for a peak holiday travel day - then only a couple for most of the rest of a year. They cost a lot to install and a lot to maintain but if say we had 500 mile range batteries how often would we need to charge away from home?

[Rabs]

Far too few sites in Australia. Hopefully the current future earmarked sites remain on track

[glumpy]

Not an EV or a tesla fan but your commentary is refreshingly honest and free of hype. It's great to get truth and honesty on a subject without bias either way.
I can see method in this supercharger strategy. There are endless reports of hours long waits for chargers.
It would make sense to put more stations in to ease this.

What I wonder about though is how many have the space to do it? I understand many are in car parks of other businesses but how much area are they going to want to give up and what will they want in return? Still going to be substantial investment and ongoing cost.

That said I can well see where it would be far cheaper to use the infrastructure in place than develop from scratch.
On the 5th hand, that infrastructure will have limits in the power that can be drawn at one location so I wonder if this will not largely amount to more people charging slower with little actual increase in throughput and chargers back down for the limits on the initial feeder lines from the grid?

It could also be a spin pacification excuse for a huge slowing of network expansion where they keep their money very close to their chest. ANY expansion is going to be a significant cost and one that won't sell more cars or have an attractive ROI.

I like your comment on what people would do if THEY were CEO. No one else has the info Musk and his board does and without that, saying a decision is good or bad is really pretty dumb when one has none of the facts and figures the decision makers do.

[carl-Sp]

We’ve done two 4000km road trips from Nth NSW. Once to Cairns, recently the Great Ocean Road, central Victoria. Only once have we waited for a charger, 10mins at Heatherbrae. That’s about to be solved with new station at Taree. Don’t let this story stop you from going electric. You won’t look back. 🌞🌞🔋

[omni_]

There's still so many small towns missing that I can't reliably take an EV to rural areas. This is a bummer.