Elon Musk said Tesla will spend more than $500 million to expand the Supercharger network this year after laying off the charging team.
This says a lot about the explanation of why the dismissal was made.
Last week, Elon Musk fired all Tesla positions amid major layoffs at the company.
We report that this resolution resulted in Tesla’s removal from planned Supercharger station rentals and confusion among its partners in ongoing projects.
This will lead to a slowdown in Tesla’s deployment of charging stations.
Musk has said in the past that Tesla still plans to roll out superchargers, but at a slower speed and concentrating on adding chargers to existing stations.
Now, the CEO says Tesla will spend more than $500 million to expand the Supercharger this year:
Tesla has never disclosed its charge to implement the Suconsistent with charger, however, some data questions between $45,000 and $50,000 per charger, which would mean that $500 million spent this year would require roughly the same implementation as in the first quarter, the last quarter when Tesla had a full team of Suconsistent withcharger. team.
We previously reported that Musk fired the Supercharger team after the head of the team Rebecca Tinucci, pushed back against the level of layoffs that the CEO requested.
Musk responded by firing her and her entire team of about 500 other people, then sent an email to the other executives warning them that he would ask them to resign if they didn’t fire the number of people he demands.
This showed quite a bit of what I was talking about Elon’s decision to fire the entire fee team.
This had nothing to do with an update to the cargo-related plans.
The average turnover rate per worker is 6 to 9 months of a worker’s salary, while others say you can collect up to twice the worker’s annual salary.
Now I think looking to recruit new people to a team who they know could be fired just because their boss stood up for them when the part-time CEO is having fun, regardless of how well they or the team perform. I’m sure we’ll find other people, but the pool of applicants will be much smaller and less motivated. It’s a great way to slowly drain a company of what makes it wonderful, which is other people.
The rate opposed the layoffs and Elon set an example: she and her entire team were collateral damage. It was an inconsiderate and impulsive move, which is what he usually does.
It is not based on any mission-driven project or supercharger plan replacement.
Still, you have Elon’s sucofants claiming that this is a resolution for reasons x, y, z.
There will be a slowdown in the launch of the Supercharger in the coming months, once the subcontractors have completed everything planned. Customers will be affected, especially if other automakers continue to integrate into the network. It is inevitable.
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