Tesla has fired most of its charging team, even though it has recently won over big automakers like Ford and General Motors and made its connection the standard in North America.
Tesla’s network of Superchargers has been seen as one of its biggest benefits for a long time. There are a lot of them, and they work much better than other charging networks. The connector technology, which is called the North American Charging Standard (NACS), is now being used by almost all big automakers in North America.
The Information was the first to report that CEO Elon Musk told executives about the new layoffs in an overnight email. In the email, he said that he wants leaders to be “absolutely hard core about headcount and cost reduction” and told them to fire or resign more employees who “don’t obviously pass the excellent, necessary, and trustworthy test.” The Information says that Daniel Ho, who is in charge of new cars, and Rebecca Tinucci, who is senior director of EV charging, are not there.
Got confirmation from sources that the whole global charging group was fired. One source from a big automaker told TechCrunch that the move came as a surprise to everyone.
Musk wrote on his X social media site that he “has let our whole charging org go.” Jameson was one of the charging team leads who was let go in the cuts.
“I don’t know what this means for the charging network, NACS, and all the fun work we were doing in the industry right now.” “What a crazy ride it’s been,” he wrote.
So many jobs have been lost that Musk hinted in an email that the company might slow down its plans to add more Superchargers. He said that Tesla “will continue to build out some new Supercharger locations, where critical, and finish those currently under construction.”
Reports say that Musk is also getting rid of Tesla’s public policy team. Rohan Patel, who used to be the vice president of that team, quit the company two weeks ago, around the same time that cuts were revealed. He told TechCrunch at the time that it was the “best policy/bizdev team in the business.” It’s true that I’m biased, but he wrote, “The people who were on my team are just phenomenal.”
Tesla’s policy team helped the company get about 13% of the funding available from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The company was also trying to get another federal grant of about $100 million to pay for building a charging corridor for its still-in-development electric big rig until not long ago.
Just two weeks ago, Musk said that Tesla would be letting go of more than 10% of its staff as part of a company-wide reorganization to “go balls to the wall for autonomy.” The company just got through a rough first quarter in which EV sales caused profits to drop 55%. At the same time, the company’s board is trying to bring back Musk’s $56 billion pay package, which was thrown out by a judge. The CEO has also threatened to use his startup xAI to build AI technology if he doesn’t get even more power at Tesla.
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